尤其是在中国北方,包饺子、吃饺子,已经成为大多数家庭欢度除夕的一个重要活动。

Especially in northern China, wrapping and eating dumplings has become an important activity for happily spending New Year's Eve in many households.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 尤其是 yóushì
  1. especially
  2. most of all
  3. above all
  4. in particular
2 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)
3 中国 Zhōngguó China
4 北方 běifāng
  1. north
  2. the northern part a country
  3. China north of the Yellow River
5 包饺子 bāojiǎozi to wrap jiaozi (dumplings or potstickers)
=6 chī
  1. to eat; to consume
  2. to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
  3. to eradicate; to destroy
  4. to absorb
  5. to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
=6 chī variant of chī
7 饺子 jiǎozi
  1. dumpling
  2. pot-sticker

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=8 已经 jīng already
=8 已经 jìng already
9 成为 chéngwéi to become; to turn into
10 大多数 duōshù (great) majority
11 家庭 jiātíng
  1. family
  2. household

classifiers: ,

12 欢度 huān
  1. to merrily spend (an occasion)
  2. to celebrate
=13 除夕 Chú lunar New Year's Eve
=13 除夕 chú
  1. (by extension) New Year's Eve (day or night before New Year)
  2. Chinese New Year's Eve (day or night before Chinese New Year)
  3. New Year's Eve (day or night before New Year)
=14 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
=14 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=14 really and truly
=14 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
=15 一个 ge
  1. a; an; one
  2. the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
=15 一个
  1. Combination of the numeral (“one”) and the generic classifier : a; an; one
  2. same
16 重要 zhòngyào important; significant; major
17 活动 huódòng
  1. to exercise; to move about; to work out
  2. shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc)
  3. movable; flexible; liquid (capital etc)
  4. (volcanic, seismic, economic etc) activity
  5. to use personal influence, connections, bribes etc

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