猫在黑暗中都是灰色的。

All cats are grey in the dark.

At night all cats are grey.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 māo
  1. (dialect) to hide oneself
  2. (loanword) (coll.) modem

classifier:

=1 máo used in 猫腰 máoyāo
2 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)
=3 黑暗 hēiàn
  1. dark
  2. darkly
  3. darkness
=3 黑暗 hēi'àn
  1. (figurative) backward; unenlightened; evil; corrupt; sordid; dark
  2. (obsolete) rhinoceros horn
  3. backward; unenlightened; evil; corrupt; sordid; dark
  4. dark; unlighted
  5. rhinoceros horn
=4 中都 Zhōng Zhongdu, capital of China during the Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), modern day Beijing
=4 中都 zhōng
  1. (archaic) synonym of 都市 (dūshì), metropolis
  2. (archaic) synonym of 首都 (shǒudū), capital city
  3. (historical) Zhongdu (a former city in Liangxiang, Fangshan district, Beijing, China, one of the capitals of the ancient Yan Kingdom.)
  4. (historical) Zhongdu (a former city in southwestern Xicheng district, Beijing, China, the capital of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty)
  5. Zhongdu (a former city in Liangxiang, Fangshan district, Beijing, China, one of the capitals of the ancient Yan Kingdom.)
  6. Zhongdu (a former city in southwestern Xicheng district, Beijing, China, the capital of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty)
  7. synonym of 都市 (dūshì), metropolis
  8. synonym of 首都 (shǒudū), capital city
=5 shì
  1. to be (followed by substantives only)
  2. correct; right; true
  3. (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
  4. (adverb for emphatic assertion)
=5 shì variant of shì
6 灰色 huī
  1. gray
  2. ash gray
  3. grizzly
  4. pessimistic
  5. gloomy
  6. dispirited
  7. ambiguous
=7 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 跑堂儿的 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
=7 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=7 really and truly
=7 (bound form) bull's-eye; target