虽受邀参加今晚一个精彩万分的派对,奈何明日不得不打起精神出席会议,只好推辞了。

I got an invitation to a party tonight that I know would be a lot of fun but I have to be in my best form for tomorrow's meeting so I had to turn it down.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 suī
  1. although
  2. even though
2 受邀 shòuyāo
  1. to accept an invitation
  2. to receive an invitation
3 参加 cānjiā
  1. to participate
  2. to take part
  3. to join
4 今晚 jīnwǎn tonight
=5 一个 ge
  1. a; an; one
  2. the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
=5 一个
  1. Combination of the numeral (“one”) and the generic classifier : a; an; one
  2. same
6 精彩 jīngcǎi
  1. wonderful
  2. marvelous
  3. brilliant
7 万分 wànfēn
  1. very much
  2. extremely
  3. one ten thousandth part
=8 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
=8 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=8 really and truly
=8 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
9 派对 pàiduì (loanword) party
10 奈何 nài
  1. to do something to sb
  2. to deal with
  3. to cope
  4. how?
  5. to no avail
11 明日 míng tomorrow
12 不得不
  1. have no choice or option but to
  2. cannot but
  3. have to
  4. can't help it
  5. can't avoid
=13
  1. (loanword) dozen
  2. Taiwan pr.
=13
  1. a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘 sǎn "to hold an umbrella", 打電話 diànhuà "to make a phone call", 打針 zhēn "to get an injection", 打手套 shǒutào "to knit gloves", 打氣 "to inflate")
  2. to hit; to strike
  3. to fight
  4. (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後 hòu "since then")
14
  1. to rise
  2. to raise
  3. to get up
  4. to set out
  5. to start
  6. to appear
  7. to launch
  8. to initiate (action)
  9. to draft
  10. to establish
  11. to get (from a depot or counter)
  12. verb suffix, to start
  13. starting from (a time, place, price etc)
  14. classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance
  15. classifier for groups: batch, group
=15 精神 jīngshén
  1. spirit
  2. mind
  3. consciousness
  4. thought
  5. mental
  6. psychological
  7. essence
  8. gist

classifier:

=15 精神 jīngshen
  1. vigor; vitality
  2. spirited
  3. good-looking
16 出席 chū
  1. to attend
  2. to participate
  3. present
17 会议 huì
  1. meeting
  2. conference

classifiers: ,

18 只好 zhǐhǎo to have no other option but to ...; to have to; to be forced to
19 推辞 tuī to decline (an appointment, invitation etc)
=20 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=20 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)
=20 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=20 liào unofficial variant of liào