戰爭結束的時候,我已經在軍隊裡待了一箇月。

I had been in the army for a month when the war ended.

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Sentence Composition

1 戰爭 zhànzhēng war; conflict

classifiers: ,

2 結束 jiéshù
  1. termination
  2. to finish
  3. to end
  4. to conclude
  5. to close
=3 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
=3 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=3 really and truly
=3 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
4 時候 shíhou
  1. time
  2. length of time
  3. moment
  4. period
5
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
6 已經 jīng already
7 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)
8 軍隊 jūnduì armed forces; troops

classifiers: ,

9
  1. lining
  2. interior
  3. inside
  4. internal
  5. also written
=10 dāi to stay; to remain
=10 dài
  1. to wait
  2. to treat
  3. to deal with
  4. to need
  5. going to (do sth)
  6. about to
  7. intending to
=11 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=11 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)
=11 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=11 liào unofficial variant of liào
12
  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
13 variant of
14 yuè
  1. moon
  2. month
  3. monthly

classifiers: ,