我的家離這裏只有一英里。

My house is only a mile from here.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
=2 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 de "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. or di in poetry and songs
=2 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=2 really and truly
=2 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
=3 jiā used in 傢伙 jiāhuo and 傢俱 jiā
=3 jiā
  1. home
  2. family
  3. (polite) my (sister, uncle etc)
  4. classifier for families or businesses
  5. refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China
  6. noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian

classifier:

=3 jie only used in 大家 (dàgū)
=4 surname Li
=4
  1. to leave
  2. to part from
  3. to be away from
  4. (in giving distances) from
  5. without (sth)
  6. independent of
  7. one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦 guà, symbolizing fire
=4
  1. (obsolete) to reject; to discard
  2. alternative form of / (“to adhere; to attach to”)
  3. to reject; to discard
  4. used in 離支离支 (lìzhī, “lychee”)
=4 only used in 離跂离跂
=4 chī
  1. alternative form of (“a kind of legendary beast”)
  2. alternative form of (chī, “a kind of dragon”)
=4 only used in 離瞀离瞀
5 這裏 zhè variant of 這裡 zhè
6 只有 zhǐyǒu
  1. only have ...; there is only ...
  2. (used in combination with cái) it is only if ... (that one can ...) (as in 只有通過治療才能痊愈 zhǐyǒutōngguòzhìliáocáinéngquán "the only way to cure it is with therapy")
  3. it is only (someone) who ... (as in 只有男性才有此需要 zhǐyǒunánxìngcáiyǒuyào "only men would have such a requirement")
  4. (used to express lack of alternatives) can only; have no choice but to (as in 只有屈服 zhǐyǒu "the only thing you can do is give in")
7
  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
8 英里 yīng mile (unit of length equal to 1.609 km)