尽管美国是个发达国家,却还有些很贫穷的人。

Even though America is a developed country, it still has some very poor people.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 尽管 jǐnguǎn
  1. despite
  2. although
  3. even though
  4. in spite of
  5. unhesitatingly
  6. do not hesitate (to ask, complain etc)
  7. (go ahead and do it) without hesitating
2 美国 Měiguó United States; USA; US
=3 shì
  1. to be (followed by substantives only)
  2. correct; right; true
  3. (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
  4. (adverb for emphatic assertion)
=3 shì variant of shì
=4 used in 自個兒 r
=4
  1. (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier)
  2. (bound form) individual
=4 variant of
5 发达国家 guójiā developed nation
=6 què old variant of què
=6 què
  1. but
  2. yet
  3. however
  4. while
  5. to go back
  6. to decline
  7. to retreat
  8. nevertheless
  9. even though
=6
  1. to catch
  2. to dispel
  3. to hold up with both hands
7 还有 háiyǒu
  1. there still remain(s); there is (or are) still
  2. in addition
8 xiē classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several
9 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
10 贫穷 pínqióng
  1. poor
  2. impoverished
=11 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
=11 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=11 really and truly
=11 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
12 rén person; people

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