在十月的某一天,祯子醒来后发现了正在哭泣的母亲。

One day in October, when Sadako awoke, she found her mother crying.

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Sentence Composition

1 zài
  1. to exist; to be alive
  2. (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
  3. (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
=2 十月 Shíyuè
  1. October
  2. tenth month (of the lunar year)
=2 十月 shíyuè
  1. October
  2. The modern name of the tenth month of the Chinese lunar calendar.
=3 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
=3 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=3 really and truly
=3 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
4 mǒu
  1. some
  2. a certain
  3. sb or sth indefinite
  4. such-and-such
5 一天 tiān
  1. (colloquial) the whole day
  2. one day (twenty-four hours)
  3. someday; one day
  4. the entire daytime of one day
  5. the whole day
6 zhēn
  1. auspicious
  2. lucky
=7
  1. son
  2. child
  3. seed
  4. egg
  5. small thing
  6. 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat
  7. viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 děngjuéwèi
  8. ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north)
  9. subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
=7 zi noun suffix, as in 椅子 zi "chair"
8 醒来 xǐnglái to waken
=9 Hòu surname Hou
=9 hòu
  1. empress
  2. queen
  3. (archaic) monarch
  4. ruler
=9 hòu
  1. back
  2. behind
  3. rear
  4. afterwards
  5. after
  6. later
  7. post-
10 发现 xiàn
  1. to notice; to become aware of
  2. to discover; to find; to detect
  3. a discovery
=11 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=11 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)
=11 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=11 liào unofficial variant of liào
12 正在 zhèngzài to be in the process of (doing sth); to be currently ...-ing
13 哭泣 to weep
=14 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
=14 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=14 really and truly
=14 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
15 母亲 qīn
  1. mother
  2. also pr. qin

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