湯姆花了大半箇早晨整理辦公室。

Tom spent most of the morning straightening up his office.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 湯姆 Tāngmǔ Tom (name)
=2 花 Huā surname Hua
=2 花 huā
  1. flower
  2. blossom
  3. fancy pattern
  4. florid
  5. to spend (money, time)
  6. (coll.) lecherous
  7. lustful

classifiers: 朵, 支, 束, 把, 盆, 簇
=2 花 huā old variant of 花 huā
=2 花 huā
  1. variant of 花 huā
  2. flower
  3. blossom
  4. also pr. wěi
=3 了 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=3 了 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with 得 dé or 不 bù after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 无 wú or 不 bù) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of 了 liǎo)
=3 了 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=3 了 liào unofficial variant of 瞭 liào
4 大半 dàbàn
  1. more than half
  2. greater part
  3. most
  4. probably
  5. most likely
5 箇 gè variant of 个 gè
=6 早晨 zǎochén
  1. early morning
  2. also pr. zǎochen

classifier: 個
=6 早晨 zǎochen early morning (usually referring to the period from sunrise or 4 am to 8 am or 9 am)
7 整理 zhěnglǐ
  1. to arrange
  2. to tidy up
  3. to sort out
  4. to straighten out
  5. to list systematically
  6. to collate (data, files)
  7. to pack (luggage)
8 辦公室 bàngōngshì office; business premises