湯姆已經下定決心要去波士頓唸書。

Tom has made up his mind to go to Boston to study.

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Sentence Composition

1 湯姆 Tāngmǔ Tom (name)
2 已經 yǐjīng already
3 下定決心 xiàdìngjuéxīn to make a firm resolution
=4 要 yāo (bound form) to demand; to coerce
=4 要 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
=4 要 yǎo
  1. (archaic) alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  2. alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  3. used in 要褭／要袅
5 去 qù
  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)
6 波士頓 Bōshìdùn Boston, capital of Massachusetts
7 唸 niàn variant of 念 niàn, to read aloud
=8 書 Shū abbr. for 書經 Shūjīng
=8 書 shū
  1. book
  2. letter
  3. document
  4. to write

classifiers: 本, 冊, 部