睡覺前我吃了三片藥來治療感冒。

Before going to bed, I took three pills to stop a cold.

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Sentence Composition

=1 睡覺 shuìjiào
  1. to go to bed
  2. to sleep
=1 睡覺 shuìjué
  1. (archaic, intransitive) to wake up
  2. to wake up
2 qián
  1. front
  2. forward
  3. ahead
  4. first
  5. top (followed by a number)
  6. future
  7. ago
  8. before
  9. BC (e.g. 293)
  10. former
  11. formerly
3
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
=4 chī
  1. to eat; to consume
  2. to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
  3. to eradicate; to destroy
  4. to absorb
  5. to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
=4 chī variant of chī
=5 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=5 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)
=5 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=5 liào unofficial variant of liào
=6 Sān surname San
=6 sān
  1. three
  2. 3
=7 piān
  1. disk
  2. sheet
=7 piàn
  1. thin piece
  2. flake
  3. a slice
  4. film
  5. TV play
  6. to slice
  7. to carve thin
  8. partial
  9. incomplete
  10. one-sided
  11. classifier for slices, tablets, tract of land, area of water
  12. classifier for CDs, movies, DVDs etc
  13. used with numeral : classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc
  14. Kangxi radical 91
8 yào
  1. medicine
  2. drug
  3. substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting)
  4. to poison

classifiers: , ,

9 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 回来 huílai)
  4. ever since (as in 自古以来 lái)
  5. for the past (amount of time)
  6. (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 来世 láishì)
  7. (between two verbs) in order to
  8. (after a round number) approximately
  9. (used after to indicate possibility, as in 谈得来 tándelái, or after to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不来 chībulái)
10 治療 zhìliáo
  1. to treat (an illness)
  2. medical treatment
  3. therapy
11 感冒 gǎnmào
  1. to catch cold
  2. (common) cold
  3. (coll.) to be interested in (often used in the negative)
  4. (Tw) to detest
  5. can't stand

classifiers: ,