每位选手都尽力了。

Every player did his best.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 每 měi
  1. each
  2. every
2 位 wèi
  1. position
  2. location
  3. place
  4. seat
  5. classifier for people (honorific)
  6. classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes)
  7. (physics) potential
3 选手 xuǎnshǒu
  1. athlete
  2. contestant
=4 都 Dū surname Du
=4 都 dōu
  1. all; both; entirely
  2. (used for emphasis) even
  3. already
  4. (not) at all
=4 都 dū
  1. capital city
  2. metropolis
=5 尽力 jìnlì to strive one's hardest; to spare no effort
=5 尽力 jǐnlì
  1. (archaic) synonym of 盡力 /尽力 (jìnlì, “to strive one's hardest; to spare no effort; to do one's utmost”)
  2. synonym of 盡力 /尽力 (jìnlì, “to strive one's hardest; to spare no effort; to do one's utmost”)
=6 了 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=6 了 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with 得 dé or 不 bù after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 无 wú or 不 bù) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of 了 liǎo)
=6 了 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=6 了 liào unofficial variant of 瞭 liào