在你上床睡覺之前,你必須把鬧鐘設定好。

You've got to set the alarm clock before you go to bed.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 zài
  1. to exist; to be alive
  2. (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
  3. (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
=2 you (informal, as opposed to courteous nín)
=2 you (Note: In Taiwan, is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, is used to address both males and females.)
3 上床 shàngchuáng
  1. to go to bed
  2. (coll.) to have sex
=4 睡覺 shuìjiào
  1. to go to bed
  2. to sleep
=4 睡覺 shuìjué
  1. (archaic, intransitive) to wake up
  2. to wake up
5 之前 zhīqián
  1. before
  2. prior to
  3. ago
  4. previously
  5. beforehand
=6 you (informal, as opposed to courteous nín)
=6 you (Note: In Taiwan, is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, is used to address both males and females.)
7 必須
  1. to have to
  2. must
  3. compulsory
  4. necessarily
=8
  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})
=8 handle
=8
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (pá, “to scratch”)
  2. a surname
  3. alternative form of (pá, “to scratch”)
9 鬧鐘 nàozhōng alarm clock
10 設定 shèdìng
  1. to set
  2. to set up
  3. to install
  4. setting
  5. preferences
=11 hǎo
  1. good
  2. appropriate; proper
  3. all right!
  4. (before a verb) easy to
  5. (before a verb) good to
  6. (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so
  7. (verb complement indicating completion)
  8. (of two people) close; on intimate terms
  9. (after a personal pronoun) hello
=11 hào to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to