池塘里漂浮着零星的几片落叶。

A few fragments of dead leaves floated on the pond.

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Sentence Composition

1 池塘 chítáng
  1. pool
  2. pond
=2 variant of
=2
  1. lining
  2. interior
  3. inside
  4. internal
  5. also written
=2 Li (surname)
=2
  1. li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m
  2. neighborhood
  3. ancient administrative unit of 25 families
  4. (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township zhèn and neighborhood lín levels
3 漂浮 piāo
  1. to float
  2. to hover
  3. to drift (also fig., to lead a wandering life)
  4. to rove
  5. showy
  6. superficial
=4 zhāo
  1. a move in chess (Taiwan pr. zhuó)
  2. trick; tactic
  3. (dialect) okay; all right
  4. (dialect) to put in; to add
=4 zháo
  1. to touch
  2. to come in contact with
  3. to feel
  4. to be affected by
  5. to catch fire
  6. to burn
  7. (coll.) to fall asleep
  8. (after a verb) hitting the mark
  9. succeeding in
=4 zhe aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state
=4 zhuó
  1. to wear (clothes)
  2. to contact
  3. to use
  4. to apply
5 零星 língxīng
  1. fragmentary; piecemeal; in bits and pieces
  2. sporadic; scattered
=6 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
=6 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=6 really and truly
=6 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
=7 small table
=7 almost
=7
  1. how much
  2. how many
  3. several
  4. a few
=8 piān
  1. disk
  2. sheet
=8 piàn
  1. thin piece
  2. flake
  3. a slice
  4. film
  5. TV play
  6. to slice
  7. to carve thin
  8. partial
  9. incomplete
  10. one-sided
  11. classifier for slices, tablets, tract of land, area of water
  12. classifier for CDs, movies, DVDs etc
  13. used with numeral : classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc
  14. Kangxi radical 91
9 落叶 luò
  1. dead leaves
  2. to lose leaves (of plants)
  3. deciduous