我说服他放弃了这个主意。

I talked him out of the idea.

I persuaded him to give up the idea.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 我说 shuō
  1. I wondered that and now it makes sense that...
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see , /.
=2
  1. clothes
  2. dress
  3. garment
  4. to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc)
  5. to obey
  6. to be convinced (by an argument)
  7. to convince
  8. to admire
  9. to acclimatize
  10. to take (medicine)
  11. mourning clothes
  12. to wear mourning clothes
=2
  1. classifier for medicine: dose
  2. Taiwan pr.
3
  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)
4 放弃 fàng to renounce; to abandon; to give up
=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 这个 zhège
  1. (pronoun) this
  2. (adjective) this
=7 主意 zhǔyi
  1. plan
  2. idea
  3. decision
  4. Beijing pr. zhúyi

classifier:

=7 主意 zhǔ
  1. (Puxian Min) to maintain a position; to advocate; to stand for something
  2. idea; plan
  3. means; method; way
  4. personal judgement; opinion; decision
  5. to maintain a position; to advocate; to stand for something