化学工厂一着火就爆炸了。

Once the chemical plant caught fire, it exploded.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 化学 huàxué
  1. chemistry
  2. chemical
2 工厂 gōngchǎng factory

classifiers: ,

3 一着 zhāo
  1. (by extension) a move; a step
  2. a device; a stratagem
  3. a move in chess
  4. a move; a step
  5. a movement in the martial arts (wushu)
=4 Huǒ surname Huo
=4 huǒ
  1. fire
  2. urgent
  3. ammunition
  4. fiery or flaming
  5. internal heat (Chinese medicine)
  6. hot (popular)
  7. classifier for military units (old)
  8. Kangxi radical 86
5 jiù
  1. (after a suppositional clause) in that case; then
  2. (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after
  3. (same as 就是 jiùshì) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly
  4. only; as little as
  5. as much as; as many as
  6. to approach; to move towards
  7. to undertake; to engage in
  8. (often followed by zhe) taking advantage of
  9. (of food) to go with
  10. with regard to; concerning
  11. (pattern: jiù ... ...) even if ... still ...
  12. (pattern: ... jiù ...) if not ... then must be ...
6 爆炸 bàozhà
  1. explosion
  2. to explode
  3. to blow up
  4. to detonate
=7 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=7 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)
=7 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=7 liào unofficial variant of liào