冷不防,老师让每个国家的学生用话筒给大家讲一下自己来哈尔滨的原因。

Without warning, the teachers ask students from each country to take the microphone and explain to everyone their reasons for coming to Harbin.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 冷不防 lěngbufáng
  1. unexpectedly
  2. suddenly
  3. at unawares
  4. off guard
  5. against expectations
=1 冷不防 lěngfáng unexpectedly; suddenly
2 老师 lǎoshī teacher

classifiers: ,

3 ràng
  1. to yield
  2. to permit
  3. to let sb do sth
  4. to have sb do sth
  5. to make sb (feel sad etc)
  6. by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like bèi)
4 每个 měi each; every
5 国家 guójiā country; nation; state

classifier:

=6 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
=6 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=6 really and truly
=6 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
=7 学生 xuésheng
  1. student
  2. schoolchild
=7 学生 xuéshēng
  1. disciple; follower (Classifier: m)
  2. student; pupil (Classifier: m)
8 yòng
  1. to use; to make use of; to employ
  2. (coverb) with; using
  3. to need; to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions)
  4. usefulness; utility
  5. (bound form) expense; outlay
  6. (courteous) to eat; to drink
  7. (literary) hence; therefore
9 话筒 huàtǒng
  1. microphone
  2. (telephone) receiver; handset
  3. megaphone
  4. (fig.) mouthpiece; spokesperson
=10 gěi
  1. to
  2. for
  3. for the benefit of
  4. to give
  5. to allow
  6. to do sth (for sb)
  7. (grammatical equivalent of )
  8. (grammatical equivalent of )
  9. (sentence intensifier)
=10
  1. to supply
  2. to provide
=11 大家 jiā
  1. everyone
  2. influential family
  3. great expert
=11 大家
  1. (literary) alternative form of 大姑 (dàgū, “respectful address for a woman”)
  2. alternative form of 大姑 (dàgū, “respectful address for a woman”)
12 jiǎng
  1. to speak
  2. to explain
  3. to negotiate
  4. to emphasize
  5. to be particular about
  6. as far as sth is concerned
  7. speech
  8. lecture
13 一下 xià
  1. (after a verb) a bit; a little (indicating brief duration, or softening the tone, or suggesting giving sth a try)
  2. all at once; suddenly
14 自己
  1. oneself
  2. one's own
15 lái
  1. to come
  2. (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)
  3. hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來 huílai)
  4. ever since (as in 自古以來 lái)
  5. for the past (amount of time)
  6. (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世 láishì)
  7. (between two verbs) in order to
  8. (after a round number) approximately
  9. (used after to indicate possibility, as in 談得來 tándelái, or after to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來 chībulái)
=16 哈尔滨 ěrbīn see 哈爾濱市 ěrbīn Shì
=16 哈尔滨 Hā'ěrbīn
  1. (~) Harbin (a subprovincial city, provincial capital, and largest city in Heilongjiang, China)
  2. Harbin (a subprovincial city, provincial capital, and largest city in Heilongjiang, China)
=17 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
=17 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=17 really and truly
=17 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
18 原因 yuányīn
  1. cause
  2. origin
  3. root cause
  4. reason

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