由于台风原因,很多航班被取消了。

Many flights were canceled, owing to the typhoon.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 由于 yóu
  1. due to
  2. as a result of
  3. thanks to
  4. owing to
  5. since
  6. because
=2 台风 táifēng stage presence, poise
=2 台风 táifēng typhoon
3 原因 yuányīn
  1. cause
  2. origin
  3. root cause
  4. reason

classifier:

4 很多 hěnduō many; much; a lot
5 航班 hángbān (scheduled) flight; (scheduled) sailing
=6 bèi
  1. quilt
  2. to cover (with)
  3. (literary) to suffer (a misfortune)
  4. used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb)
  5. (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅遊 bèilu:yóu to "go on a trip")
=6
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
  2. alternative form of (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
=6
  1. alternative form of (bǐ, “that”)
  2. alternative form of (bì, “wig”)
=6 alternative form of
7 取消 xiāo to cancel; to call off; to revoke; to rescind
=8 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=8 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with or after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as or ) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of liǎo)
=8 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=8 liào unofficial variant of liào