烹饪课程应该作为学校的必修课。

A cooking course should be mandatory in schools.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 烹饪 pēngrèn cooking; culinary arts
2 课程 kèchéng course; academic program

classifiers: 堂, 節, 門
3 应该 yīnggāi ought to; should; must
4 作为 zuòwéi
  1. one's conduct
  2. deed
  3. activity
  4. accomplishment
  5. achievement
  6. to act as
  7. as (in the capacity of)
  8. qua
  9. to view as
  10. to look upon (sth as)
  11. to take sth to be
5 学校 xuéxiào school

classifier: 所
=6 的 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 pígéde "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. dì or di in poetry and songs
=6 的 dī a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 dīshì)
=6 的 dí really and truly
=6 的 dì (bound form) bull's-eye; target
7 必修课 bìxiūkè required course; compulsory course