有一天, 夏目漱石在倫敦迷路了。

One day, Natsume Soseki was lost in London.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 有一天 yǒuyītiān one day; some day
2 夏目漱石 Xiàmù Shùshí Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916), one of the first modern Japanese novelists
3 在 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)
4 倫敦 Lúndūn London, capital of United Kingdom
5 迷路 mílù
  1. to lose the way
  2. lost
  3. labyrinth
  4. labyrinthus vestibularis (of the inner ear)
=6 了 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=6 了 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with 得 dé or 不 bù after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 无 wú or 不 bù) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of 了 liǎo)
=6 了 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=6 了 liào unofficial variant of 瞭 liào