一條主要水管被地震震裂了。

The water mains burst due to the earthquake.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1
  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
2 tiáo
  1. strip
  2. item
  3. article
  4. clause (of law or treaty)
  5. classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)
3 主要 zhǔyào main; principal; major; primary
4 水管 shuǐguǎn water pipe
=5 bèi
  1. quilt
  2. to cover (with)
  3. (literary) to suffer (a misfortune)
  4. used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb)
  5. (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅遊 bèilu:yóu to "go on a trip")
=5
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
  2. alternative form of (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
=5
  1. alternative form of (bǐ, “that”)
  2. alternative form of (bì, “wig”)
=5 alternative form of
6 地震 zhèn earthquake
=7 zhèn
  1. to shake
  2. to vibrate
  3. to jolt
  4. to quake
  5. excited
  6. shocked
  7. one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦 guà, symbolizing thunder
=7 shēn alternative form of (shēn, “to be pregnant”)
8 liè
  1. to split
  2. to crack
  3. to break open
  4. to rend
=9 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=9 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with or after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as or ) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of liǎo)
=9 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=9 liào unofficial variant of liào