今天,英語只是世界上超過2,700種語言的其中之一。

English is just one of over 2,700 languages in the world today.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 今天 jīntiān
  1. today
  2. the present time; now
2 英語 Yīng English (language)
3 只是 zhǐshì
  1. merely; only; just; nothing but
  2. simply
  3. but; however
4 世界 shìjiè world

classifier:

=5 shǎng used in 上聲 shǎngshēng
=5 shàng
  1. (bound form) up; upper; above; previous
  2. first (of multiple parts)
  3. to climb; to get onto; to go up
  4. to attend (class or university)
  5. (directional complement) up
  6. (noun suffix) on; above
6 超過 chāoguò
  1. to surpass
  2. to exceed
  3. to outstrip
=7 zhǒng
  1. seed
  2. species
  3. kind
  4. type
  5. classifier for types, kinds, sorts
=7 zhòng
  1. to plant
  2. to grow
  3. to cultivate
=7 chóng
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) cereal that is to plant early and to harvest lately
  2. a surname
  3. cereal that is to plant early and to harvest lately
=8 語言 yán language

classifiers: ,

=8 語言 yán
  1. (literary) to tell
  2. to tell
=9 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 de "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. or di in poetry and songs
=9 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=9 really and truly
=9 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
10 其中 zhōng
  1. among
  2. in
  3. included among these
11 之一 zhī
  1. one of (sth)
  2. one out of a multitude
  3. one (third, quarter, percent etc)