我不得不戴耳塞来阻隔旁边建筑工地的所有噪音。

I have to wear earplugs to drown out all the noise from the construction site next door.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 我 wǒ
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
2 不得不 bùdébù
  1. have no choice or option but to
  2. cannot but
  3. have to
  4. can't help it
  5. can't avoid
=3 戴 Dài surname Dai
=3 戴 dài
  1. to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc)
  2. to respect
  3. to bear
  4. to support
=4 耳塞 ěrsāi
  1. earplug
  2. earphone
=4 耳塞 ersǎi
  1. (dialectal) earwax
  2. earwax
5 来 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 回來 huílai)
  4. ever since (as in 自古以來 zìgǔyǐlái)
  5. for the past (amount of time)
  6. (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世 láishì)
  7. (between two verbs) in order to
  8. (after a round number) approximately
  9. (used after 得 dé to indicate possibility, as in 談得來 tándelái, or after 不 bù to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來 chībulái)
6 阻隔 zǔgé
  1. to separate
  2. to cut off
7 旁边 pángbiān side; adjacent place
8 建筑工地 jiànzhùgōngdì construction site; building site
=9 的 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 pígéde "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. dì or di in poetry and songs
=9 的 dī a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 dīshì)
=9 的 dí really and truly
=9 的 dì (bound form) bull's-eye; target
10 所有 suǒyǒu
  1. all
  2. to have; to possess; to own
11 噪音 zàoyīn
  1. rumble
  2. noise
  3. static (in a signal)