約翰是班裡個子最高的男生,我們戲稱他為「高先生」。

John, the tallest boy in our class, is nicknamed "Mr High".

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 約翰 Yuēhàn
  1. John (name)
  2. Johan (name)
  3. Johann (name)
=2 shì
  1. to be (followed by substantives only)
  2. correct; right; true
  3. (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
  4. (adverb for emphatic assertion)
=2 shì variant of shì
=3 Bān surname Ban
=3 bān
  1. team; class; grade
  2. (military) squad
  3. work shift
  4. classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles

classifier:

4
  1. lining
  2. interior
  3. inside
  4. internal
  5. also written
5 個子 zi
  1. stature; height; size (of a person or object)
  2. (agriculture) bundle of cereal stalks tied together
6 最高 zuìgāo
  1. tallest
  2. highest
  3. supreme (court etc)
=7 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
=7 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=7 really and truly
=7 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
8 男生 nánshēng
  1. schoolboy
  2. male student
  3. boy
  4. guy (young adult male)
9 我們 men we; us; ourselves; our
10 戲稱 chēng
  1. to jokingly call
  2. jocular appellation
11
  1. (third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his
  2. (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日 and 他人 rén)
=12 wéi
  1. as (in the capacity of)
  2. to take sth as
  3. to act as
  4. to serve as
  5. to behave as
  6. to become
  7. to be
  8. to do
  9. by (in the passive voice)
=12 wèi
  1. because of
  2. for
  3. to
=13 Gāo surname Gao
=13 gāo
  1. high
  2. tall
  3. above average
  4. loud
  5. your (honorific)
=14 先生 xiānsheng
  1. teacher
  2. gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.)
  3. husband
  4. (dialect) doctor

classifier:

=14 先生 xiānshēng
  1. (dialectal) traditional Chinese medicine physician
  2. (literal, Classical) one who was born earlier
  3. (literary) Taoist priest
  4. (literary) ancestor
  5. (literary) father and elder brother
  6. An honorific for adults, usually conferred on males: mister; sir; gentleman
  7. Taoist priest
  8. ancestor
  9. father and elder brother
  10. husband
  11. one who was born earlier
  12. traditional Chinese medicine physician