湯姆講法語好像比以前好。

Tom seems to speak French better than before.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 湯姆 Tāngmǔ Tom (name)
2 講法 jiǎngfǎ
  1. explanation; view; opinion
  2. way of saying something; wording; version
=3 語 yǔ
  1. dialect
  2. language
  3. speech
=3 語 yù (literary) to tell; to let (sb) know
4 好像 hǎoxiàng
  1. as if
  2. to seem like
=5 比 Bǐ
  1. Belgium
  2. Belgian
  3. abbr. for 比利时 Bǐlìshí
=5 比 bī euphemistic variant of 屄 bī
=5 比 bǐ
  1. to compare
  2. (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun}
  3. ratio
  4. to gesture
  5. (Taiwan pr. bì in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese)
=5 比 pí
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) used in 師比／师比 (shīpí, “ancient belt hook”)
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) used in 比蒲 (“placename”)
  3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) used in 皋比 (gāopí, “tiger skin”)
  4. used in 師比／师比 (shīpí, “ancient belt hook”)
  5. used in 比蒲 (“placename”)
  6. used in 皋比 (gāopí, “tiger skin”)
=5 比 bì
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) close; near
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) dense; closely packed
  3. close; near
  4. dense; closely packed
=5 比 pǐ
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 庀 (pǐ, “to have; to possess”)
  2. alternative form of 庀 (pǐ, “to have; to possess”)
6 以前 yǐqián
  1. before
  2. formerly
  3. previous
  4. ago
=7 好 hǎo
  1. good
  2. appropriate; proper
  3. all right!
  4. (before a verb) easy to
  5. (before a verb) good to
  6. (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so
  7. (verb complement indicating completion)
  8. (of two people) close; on intimate terms
  9. (after a personal pronoun) hello
=7 好 hào to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to