现在许多年轻人工作都不太安分,朋友的儿子大学毕业不到两年,已经换了五个工作了。

These days many young people work without much focus; my friend's son hadn't gone two years after graduating before he'd changed jobs five times.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 现在 xiànzài now; at present; currently
2 许多 duō
  1. many
  2. a lot of
  3. much
3 年轻人 niánqīngrén
  1. young people
  2. youngster
4 工作 gōngzuò
  1. to work
  2. (of a machine) to operate
  3. job
  4. work
  5. task

classifiers: , ,

=5 surname Du
=5 dōu
  1. all; both; entirely
  2. (used for emphasis) even
  3. already
  4. (not) at all
=5
  1. capital city
  2. metropolis
6
  1. no; not so
  2. (bound form) not; un-
=7 tài
  1. highest
  2. greatest
  3. too (much)
  4. very
  5. extremely
=7
  1. (Korean Classical Chinese) soybean
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) only used in 太末
  3. only used in 太末
  4. soybean
8 安分 ānfèn
  1. content with one's lot
  2. knowing one's place
=9 朋友 péngyou friend

classifiers: ,

=9 朋友 péngyǒu
  1. (archaic) large number of retainers
  2. (archaic, Ming dynasty) designation given by government bureaucrats to Confucian students
  3. designation given by government bureaucrats to Confucian students
  4. large number of retainers
=10 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
=10 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=10 really and truly
=10 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
=11 儿子 érzi son
=11 儿子 ér
  1. Term of self-address, used by a man when speaking to elders.
  2. baby; infant; newborn
  3. child
=12 大学 xué the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四书 shū in Confucianism
=12 大学 xué
  1. university
  2. college

classifier:

13 毕业
  1. graduation
  2. to graduate
  3. to finish school
14 不到 dào
  1. not to arrive
  2. not reaching
  3. insufficient
  4. less than
15 liǎng
  1. two
  2. both
  3. some
  4. a few
  5. tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty jīn (old)
=16 Nián surname Nian
=16 nián year

classifier:

=16 nián
  1. grain
  2. harvest (old)
  3. variant of nián
=17 已经 jīng already
=17 已经 jìng already
18 huàn
  1. to exchange
  2. to change (clothes etc)
  3. to substitute
  4. to switch
  5. to convert (currency)
=19 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=19 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with or after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as or ) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of liǎo)
=19 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=19 liào unofficial variant of liào
20
  1. five
  2. 5
=21 used in 自个儿 r
=21
  1. (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier)
  2. (bound form) individual
=21 variant of
22 工作 gōngzuò
  1. to work
  2. (of a machine) to operate
  3. job
  4. work
  5. task

classifiers: , ,

=23 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=23 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with or after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as or ) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of liǎo)
=23 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=23 liào unofficial variant of liào