湯姆轉身開始跑。

Tom turned around and started to run.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 湯姆 Tāngmǔ Tom (name)
2 轉身 zhuǎnshēn
  1. (of a person) to turn round
  2. to face about
  3. (of a widow) to remarry (archaic)
3 開始 kāishǐ
  1. to begin
  2. beginning
  3. to start
  4. initial

classifier: 個
=4 跑 páo (of an animal) to paw (the ground)
=4 跑 pǎo
  1. to run
  2. to run away
  3. to escape
  4. to run around (on errands etc)
  5. (of a gas or liquid) to leak or evaporate
  6. (verb complement) away
  7. off