湯姆貓在幫忙。

Tom was helping out.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 湯姆 Tāngmǔ Tom (name)
=2 貓 māo
  1. (dialect) to hide oneself
  2. (loanword) (coll.) modem

classifier: 隻
=2 貓 máo used in 猫腰 máoyāo
3 在 zài
  1. to exist; to be alive
  2. (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
  3. (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
4 幫忙 bāngmáng
  1. to help
  2. to lend a hand
  3. to do a favor
  4. to do a good turn