瑪莉發現湯姆其實是一位很有才華的歌手。

Mary discovered that Tom was secretly a talented singer.

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Sentence Composition

1 瑪莉 a transliteration of the English female given name Mary
2 發現 xiàn
  1. to notice; to become aware of
  2. to discover; to find; to detect
  3. a discovery
3 湯姆 Tāng Tom (name)
4 其實 shí actually; in fact; really
=5 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)
=5 shì variant of shì
6
  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
7 wèi
  1. position
  2. location
  3. place
  4. seat
  5. classifier for people (honorific)
  6. classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes)
  7. (physics) potential
8 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
9 有才 yǒucái talented; gifted; skilled
=10 Huá abbr. for China
=10 Huà
  1. Mount Hua 华山 Huà Shān in Shaanxi
  2. surname Hua
=10 huā
  1. old variant of huā
  2. flower
=10 huá
  1. magnificent
  2. splendid
  3. flowery
=10 huà
  1. (~) Mount Hua (a mountain in Shaanxi)
  2. Mount Hua (a mountain in Shaanxi)
  3. Original form of (huà, “birch”).
  4. a surname
=10 kuā
  1. (archaic) intertwined; crisscrossing; irregular
  2. intertwined; crisscrossing; irregular
=11 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 跑堂儿的 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
=11 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=11 really and truly
=11 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
12 歌手 shǒu singer