數千名工人和工匠辛勤工作了 22 年,才打造出這座令人驚嘆的白色大理石建築。

Thousands of laborers and craftsmen toiled for 22 years to craft the stunning white marble edifice.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 shǔ
  1. to count
  2. to count as; to regard as
  3. to enumerate; to list
=1 shù
  1. number; figure
  2. several; a few
=1 shuò (literary) frequently; repeatedly
=2 qiān thousand
=2 qiān used in 鞦韆 qiūqiān
3 míng
  1. name
  2. noun (part of speech)
  3. place (e.g. among winners)
  4. famous
  5. classifier for people
4 工人 gōngrén worker

classifiers: ,

=5 old variant of
=5 surname He
=5
  1. (joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. hàn)
  2. (math.) sum
  3. to make peace
  4. (sports) to draw; to tie
  5. (bound form) harmonious
  6. (bound form) Japan; Japanese
=5
  1. to compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence
  2. to join in the singing
  3. to chime in with others
=5 to complete a set in mahjong or playing cards
=5 huó
  1. to combine a powdery substance (flour, plaster etc) with water
  2. Taiwan pr. huò
=5 huò
  1. to mix (ingredients) together
  2. to blend
  3. classifier for rinses of clothes
  4. classifier for boilings of medicinal herbs
=5 (literary) harmonious (variant of )
=5 huo
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) warm
  2. warm
6 工匠 gōngjiàng
  1. artisan
  2. smith
7 辛勤 xīnqín hardworking; industrious
8 工作 gōngzuò
  1. to work
  2. (of a machine) to operate
  3. job
  4. work
  5. task

classifiers: , ,

=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
=10 Nián surname Nian
=10 nián year

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=10 nián
  1. grain
  2. harvest (old)
  3. variant of nián
=11 cái
  1. ability; talent
  2. sb of a certain type
  3. a capable individual
  4. then and only then
  5. just now
  6. (before an expression of quantity) only
=11 cái
  1. (variant of cái) just now
  2. (variant of cái) (before an expression of quantity) only
12 打造 zào
  1. to create
  2. to build
  3. to develop
  4. to forge (of metal)
=13 chū
  1. to go out; to come out
  2. to arise; to occur
  3. to produce; to yield
  4. to go beyond; to exceed
  5. (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result)
  6. classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
=13 chū variant of chū (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)
=14 zhè
  1. (pronoun) this; these
  2. (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun)
  3. (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. zhèi, esp. in Beijing)
=14 zhèi (coll.) this
15 zuò
  1. seat
  2. base; stand
  3. (bound form) constellation
  4. (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address (e.g. 師座 shīzuò)
  5. classifier for large immovable objects such as buildings, mountains, bridges etc
16 令人 lìngrén
  1. to cause one (to do sth)
  2. to make one (angry, delighted etc)
17 驚嘆 jīngtàn
  1. to exclaim in admiration
  2. a gasp of surprise
=18 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
=18 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=18 really and truly
=18 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
19 白色 bái
  1. white
  2. fig. reactionary
  3. anti-communist
20 大理石 shí marble
21 建築 jiànzhù
  1. to construct
  2. building

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