为了改进学生的学习态度,学校让他们晚一个小时来上课。

In order to improve the students' attitude to their studies, the school let them start class an hour later.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 为了 wèile for; for the purpose of; in order to
2 改进 gǎijìn
  1. to improve; to make better
  2. improvement

classifier:

=3 学生 xuésheng
  1. student
  2. schoolchild
=3 学生 xuéshēng
  1. disciple; follower (Classifier: m)
  2. student; pupil (Classifier: m)
=4 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
=4 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=4 really and truly
=4 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
5 学习 xué
  1. to learn
  2. to study
=6 态度 tàidu
  1. manner
  2. bearing
  3. attitude
  4. approach

classifier:

=6 态度 tài attitude; behavior; manner; outlook
7 学校 xuéxiào school

classifier:

8 ràng
  1. to yield
  2. to permit
  3. to let sb do sth
  4. to have sb do sth
  5. to make sb (feel sad etc)
  6. by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like bèi)
9 他们 men they; them
10 wǎn
  1. evening
  2. night
  3. late
=11 一个 ge
  1. a; an; one
  2. the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
=11 一个
  1. Combination of the numeral (“one”) and the generic classifier : a; an; one
  2. same
12 小时 xiǎoshí hour

classifier:

13 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)
14 上课 shàng
  1. to go to class
  2. to attend class
  3. to go to teach a class