湯姆搭公車去市區。

Tom takes the bus to the city.

Tom is on the bus to the city.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 湯姆 Tāngmǔ Tom (name)
2 搭 dā
  1. to put up
  2. to build (scaffolding)
  3. to hang (clothes on a pole)
  4. to connect
  5. to join
  6. to arrange in pairs
  7. to match
  8. to add
  9. to throw in (resources)
  10. to take (boat, train)
  11. variant of 褡 dā
3 公車 gōngchē
  1. bus
  2. abbr. for 公共汽车 gōnggòngqìchē
  3. car belonging to an organization and used by its members (government car, police car, company car etc)
  4. abbr. for 公务用车 gōngwùyòngchē
4 去 qù
  1. to go
  2. to go to (a place)
  3. (of a time etc) last
  4. just passed
  5. to send
  6. to remove
  7. to get rid of
  8. to reduce
  9. to be apart from in space or time
  10. to die (euphemism)
  11. to play (a part)
  12. (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth
  13. (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)
  14. (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
5 市區 shìqū
  1. urban district
  2. downtown
  3. city center