这五年痛苦的癌症治疗他终于坚持下来了。

Throughout the five years of painful cancer treatments, he managed to keep a stiff upper lip.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 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)
=1 zhèi (coll.) this
2
  1. five
  2. 5
=3 Nián surname Nian
=3 nián year

classifier:

=3 nián
  1. grain
  2. harvest (old)
  3. variant of nián
4 痛苦 tòng
  1. pain
  2. suffering
  3. painful

classifier:

=5 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 跑堂兒的 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
=5 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=5 really and truly
=5 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
=6 癌症 áizhèng cancer
=6 癌症 áizhēng Alternative term for 癌症 (áizhèng, “cancer”).
7 治疗 zhìliáo
  1. to treat (an illness)
  2. medical treatment
  3. therapy
8
  1. (third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his
  2. (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日 and 他人 rén)
9 终于 zhōng
  1. at last
  2. in the end
  3. finally
  4. eventually
10 坚持 jiānchí
  1. to persevere with
  2. to persist in
  3. to insist on
=11 下来 xiàlai
  1. to come down
  2. (completed action marker)
  3. (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.)
  4. (indicates continuation from the past towards us)
  5. to be harvested (of crops)
  6. to be over (of a period of time)
  7. to go among the masses (said of leaders)
=11 下来 xiàlái
  1. (used after a verb) down (toward oneself, or figuratively)
  2. down (toward oneself, or figuratively)
  3. to come down
=12 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=12 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)
=12 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=12 liào unofficial variant of liào