每個人成雙結對地開始跳起了舞來。

Everyone paired off and began dancing.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 每個人 měigerén
  1. everybody
  2. everyone
2 成雙 chéngshuāng to come as a pair; to become a pair
=3 jiē
  1. (of a plant) to produce (fruit or seeds)
  2. Taiwan pr. jié
=3 jié
  1. knot
  2. sturdy
  3. bond
  4. to tie
  5. to bind
  6. to check out (of a hotel)
4 對地 duì targeted (e.g. attacks)
5 開始 kāishǐ
  1. to begin
  2. beginning
  3. to start
  4. initial

classifier:

6 tiào
  1. to jump
  2. to hop
  3. to skip over
  4. to bounce
  5. to palpitate
7
  1. to rise
  2. to raise
  3. to get up
  4. to set out
  5. to start
  6. to appear
  7. to launch
  8. to initiate (action)
  9. to draft
  10. to establish
  11. to get (from a depot or counter)
  12. verb suffix, to start
  13. starting from (a time, place, price etc)
  14. classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance
  15. classifier for groups: batch, group
=8 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=8 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)
=8 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=8 liào unofficial variant of liào
9
  1. to dance
  2. to wield
  3. to brandish
10 lái
  1. to come
  2. (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)
  3. hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來 huílai)
  4. ever since (as in 自古以來 lái)
  5. for the past (amount of time)
  6. (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世 láishì)
  7. (between two verbs) in order to
  8. (after a round number) approximately
  9. (used after to indicate possibility, as in 談得來 tándelái, or after to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來 chībulái)