校长向每个毕业生颁发了毕业证书。

The principal presented each of the graduates with diploma.

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Sentence Composition

1 校长 xiàozhǎng
  1. (college, university) president
  2. headmaster

classifiers: , ,

=2 Xiàng surname Xiang
=2 xiàng
  1. towards
  2. to face
  3. to turn towards
  4. direction
  5. to support
  6. to side with
  7. shortly before
  8. formerly
  9. always
  10. all along
  11. (suffix) suitable for ...
  12. oriented to ...
=2 xiàng
  1. to tend toward
  2. to guide
  3. variant of xiàng
=2 xiàng
  1. variant of xiàng
  2. direction
  3. orientation
  4. to face
  5. to turn toward
  6. to
  7. towards
  8. shortly before
  9. formerly
3 每个 měi each; every
4 毕业生 shēng graduate
5 颁发 bān
  1. to issue
  2. to promulgate
  3. to award
=6 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=6 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)
=6 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=6 liào unofficial variant of liào
7 毕业证书 zhèngshū
  1. (PRC) (since 1985) graduation certificate, which certifies that the student has graduated, but not necessarily met all requirements to be awarded a degree certificate 学位证书 xuéwèizhèngshū
  2. (1981-1985) graduation certificate, which certified that the student graduated, and, if it included a final sentence indicating a degree type, also certified that the student met all the requirements for a degree