愛情就像麻疹──一生總要經歷一次。

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 愛情 àiqíng romance; love (romantic)

classifier: 份
2 就像 jiùxiàng to be just like; to be similar to; as if; as though
3 麻疹 mázhěn measles
4 一生 yīshēng all one's life; throughout one's life
5 總要 zǒngyào nevertheless
6 經歷 jīnglì to experience; to go through

classifiers: 段, 次
7 一次 yīcì
  1. first
  2. first time
  3. once
  4. (math.) linear (of degree one)