事故雙方的說法相差太大,當局難以判斷哪一方說的是實話。

The discrepancy between the stories of the two parties involved in the accident was so great that the authorities had a hard time deciding which side was telling the truth.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 事故 shì accident

classifiers: , ,

2 雙方 shuāngfāng
  1. bilateral
  2. both sides
  3. both parties involved
=3 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
=3 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=3 really and truly
=3 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
=4 說法 shuō to expound Buddhist teachings
=4 說法 shuōfa
  1. way of speaking
  2. wording
  3. formulation
  4. one's version (of events)
  5. statement
  6. theory
  7. hypothesis
  8. interpretation
5 相差 xiāngchà to differ
=6 tài
  1. highest
  2. greatest
  3. too (much)
  4. very
  5. extremely
=6
  1. (Korean Classical Chinese) soybean
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) only used in 太末
  3. only used in 太末
  4. soybean
=7
  1. big; large; great
  2. older (than another person)
  3. eldest (as in 大姐 jiě)
  4. greatly; freely; fully
  5. (dialect) father
  6. (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
=7 dài see 大夫 dàifu
8 當局 dāng authorities
9 難以 nán hard to (predict, imagine etc)
10 判斷 pànduàn
  1. to judge
  2. to determine
  3. judgment
=11
  1. how
  2. which
=11 na (emphatic sentence-final particle, used instead of a after a word ending in "n")
=11
  1. used in 哪吒 zhā
  2. Taiwan pr. nuó
=11 něi which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier)
12 一方 fāng
  1. a party (in a contract or legal case)
  2. one side
  3. area
  4. region
13 說的是 shuōdeshì
  1. (colloquial) indeed; you said it!; that's it!
  2. indeed; you said it!; that's it!
14 實話 shíhuà truth