我对汤姆要持之以恒地学习法语口语这件事很怀疑。

I doubt that Tom will ever learn how to speak French properly.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
2 duì
  1. right; correct
  2. towards; at; for
  3. concerning; regarding
  4. to treat (sb a certain way)
  5. to face
  6. (bound form) opposite; facing; matching
  7. to match together; to adjust
  8. to fit; to suit
  9. to answer; to reply
  10. to add; to pour in (a fluid)
  11. to check; to compare
  12. classifier: couple; pair
3 汤姆 Tāng Tom (name)
=4 yāo (bound form) to demand; to coerce
=4 yào
  1. to want; to need; to ask for
  2. will; shall; about to
  3. need to; should
  4. if (same as 要是 yàoshi)
  5. (bound form) important
=4 yǎo
  1. (archaic) alternative form of (yǎo)
  2. alternative form of (yǎo)
  3. used in 要褭要袅
5 持之以恒 chízhīhéng to pursue unremittingly (idiom); to persevere
6 地学 xué earth science
=7 surname Xi
=7
  1. (bound form) to practice
  2. to study
  3. habit
  4. custom
=8 法语 French (language)
=8 法语
  1. (Buddhism) words about Buddhist doctrine
  2. (literary) speech in accordance with etiquette
  3. French language
  4. speech in accordance with etiquette
  5. words about Buddhist doctrine
9 口语 kǒu
  1. colloquial speech
  2. spoken language
  3. vernacular language
  4. slander
  5. gossip

classifier:

=10 zhè
  1. (pronoun) this; these
  2. (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun)
  3. (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. zhèi, esp. in Beijing)
=10 zhèi (coll.) this
11 jiàn
  1. item
  2. component
  3. classifier for events, things, clothes etc
=12 shì
  1. matter
  2. thing
  3. item
  4. work
  5. affair

classifiers: , ,

=12
  1. alternative form of (zì, “to establish”)
  2. alternative form of (zì, “to stab”)
13 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
14 怀疑 huái
  1. to doubt (sth); to be skeptical of
  2. to have one's doubts; to harbor suspicions; to suspect that