湯姆上高中時很靦腆。

Tom was shy in high school.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 湯姆 Tāngmǔ Tom (name)
2 上高 Shànggāo see 上高县 Shànggāo Xiàn
3 中時 Zhōng Shí China Times (newspaper published in Taiwan) (abbr. for 中国时报 Zhōngguó Shíbào)
4 很 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
5 靦腆 miǎntiǎn shy; bashful