開始工作前要先做好計劃。

Plan your work before you start it.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 開始 kāishǐ
  1. to begin
  2. beginning
  3. to start
  4. initial

classifier: 個
2 工作 gōngzuò
  1. to work
  2. (of a machine) to operate
  3. job
  4. work
  5. task

classifiers: 個, 份, 項
3 前 qián
  1. front
  2. forward
  3. ahead
  4. first
  5. top (followed by a number)
  6. future
  7. ago
  8. before
  9. BC (e.g. 前293年)
  10. former
  11. formerly
=4 要 yāo (bound form) to demand; to coerce
=4 要 yào
  1. to want; to need; to ask for
  2. will; shall; about to
  3. need to; should
  4. if (same as 要是 yàoshi)
  5. (bound form) important
=4 要 yǎo
  1. (archaic) alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  2. alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  3. used in 要褭／要袅
=5 先 xiān
  1. beforehand; first; earlier
  2. at first; originally
  3. for the time being; for now
  4. (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself)
=5 先 xiǎn only used in 先馬／先马
6 做好 zuòhǎo
  1. to do a good job
  2. to finish; to complete
7 計劃 jìhuà
  1. plan
  2. project
  3. program
  4. to plan
  5. to map out

classifiers: 個, 項