我決定要去外國讀書,把父母嚇了一跳。

My decision to study abroad surprised my parents.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
2 決定 juédìng
  1. to decide (to do something)
  2. to resolve
  3. decision
  4. certainly

classifiers: ,

=3 yāo (bound form) to demand; to coerce
=3 yào
  1. to want; to need; to ask for
  2. will; shall; about to
  3. need to; should
  4. if (same as 要是 yàoshi)
  5. (bound form) important
=3 yǎo
  1. (archaic) alternative form of (yǎo)
  2. alternative form of (yǎo)
  3. used in 要褭要袅
4
  1. to go
  2. to go to (a place)
  3. (of a time etc) last
  4. just passed
  5. to send
  6. to remove
  7. to get rid of
  8. to reduce
  9. to be apart from in space or time
  10. to die (euphemism)
  11. to play (a part)
  12. (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth
  13. (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)
  14. (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
5 外國 wàiguó foreign country
6 讀書 shū
  1. to read a book
  2. to study
  3. to attend school
=7
  1. to hold; to grasp
  2. to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate
  3. handlebar
  4. classifier: handful, bundle, bunch
  5. classifier for things with handles
  6. (used to put the object before the verb: + {noun} + {verb})
=7 handle
=7
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (pá, “to scratch”)
  2. a surname
  3. alternative form of (pá, “to scratch”)
8 父母 father and mother; parents
=9
  1. to scare
  2. to intimidate
  3. to threaten
  4. (interjection showing disapproval) tut-tut
  5. (interjection showing astonishment)
=9 xià
  1. to frighten
  2. to scare
=10 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=10 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)
=10 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=10 liào unofficial variant of liào
11
  1. one
  2. single
  3. a (article)
  4. as soon as
  5. entire; whole; all; throughout
  6. "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
  7. also pr. yāo for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
12 tiào
  1. to jump
  2. to hop
  3. to skip over
  4. to bounce
  5. to palpitate