有人告訴過我,我們每抽一根煙,壽命就會縮短七分鐘。

Someone told me that every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes away from your life.

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Sentence Composition

1 有人 yǒurén
  1. someone
  2. people
  3. anyone
  4. there is someone there
  5. occupied (as in restroom)
=2 告訴 gào to press charges; to file a complaint
=2 告訴 gàosu to tell; to inform; to let know
=3 Guō surname Guo
=3 guò
  1. to cross
  2. to go over
  3. to pass (time)
  4. to celebrate (a holiday)
  5. to live
  6. to get along
  7. excessively
  8. too-
=3 guo (experienced action marker)
4
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
5 我們 men we; us; ourselves; our
6 měi
  1. each
  2. every
7 chōu
  1. to draw out
  2. to pull out from in between
  3. to remove part of the whole
  4. (of certain plants) to sprout or bud
  5. to whip or thrash
8
  1. one
  2. single
  3. a (article)
  4. as soon as
  5. entire; whole; all; throughout
  6. "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
  7. also pr. yāo for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
9 gēn
  1. root
  2. basis
  3. classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings
  4. radical (chemistry)

classifier:

10 yān
  1. cigarette or pipe tobacco
  2. smoke
  3. mist
  4. vapour
  5. tobacco plant
  6. (of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke

classifiers: ,

11 壽命 shòumìng
  1. life span
  2. life expectancy
  3. lifetime (of a machine)
12 jiù
  1. (after a suppositional clause) in that case; then
  2. (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after
  3. (same as 就是 jiùshì) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly
  4. only; as little as
  5. as much as; as many as
  6. to approach; to move towards
  7. to undertake; to engage in
  8. (often followed by zhe) taking advantage of
  9. (of food) to go with
  10. with regard to; concerning
  11. (pattern: jiù ... ...) even if ... still ...
  12. (pattern: ... jiù ...) if not ... then must be ...
=13 huì
  1. can; to have the skill; to know how to
  2. to be likely to; to be sure to
  3. to meet; to get together
  4. meeting; gathering
  5. (suffix) union; group; association
  6. (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. huǐ)
=13 kuài (bound form) to reckon accounts
=13 kuò only used in 會撮会撮
14 縮短 suōduǎn to shorten; to reduce; to curtail
15
  1. seven
  2. 7
16 分鐘 fēnzhōng minute