Cantonese Sentence Breakdown
        
        
                     
            
              flower
            
            
              blossom M: 朵duǒ [朵] 
            
            
               支zhī [支] 
            
            
               束shù [束] 
            
            
               把bǎ [把] 
            
            
               盆pén [盆] 
            
            
               簇cù [簇]
            
            
              fancy pattern
            
            
              florid
            
            
              to spend (money, time)
            
            
              a flowering plant
            
            
              prostitute
            
            
              prostitution
            
            
              smallpox
            
            
              multicolored
            
            
              fireworks
            
            
              to spend
            
            
              to expend
            
            
              stars on the shoulder of policeman's uniform to denote the rank
            
            
              disorderly
            
            
              scratched
            
            
              dirty
            
            
              pre-sale
            
            
              suffix related to a female
            
         
        
                     
            
              (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
            
            
              (completed action marker)
            
            
              to finish
            
            
              to end
            
            
              to settle
            
            
              a final particle indicating change of situation to understand
            
            
              a verb particle indicating possibility
            
            
              to put in
            
            
              to take away
            
            
              to escape 
            
            
               flee in secret
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              an alternative form for 閒, idle
            
         
        
                     
            
              to sit
            
            
              to take a seat
            
            
              to take (a bus, airplane etc)
            
            
              to bear fruit
            
            
              variant of 座zuò [座]
            
            
              a seat
            
            
              for a building to have its back towards
            
            
              to put something on a fire
            
            
              to be sentenced
            
         
        
                     
            
              (located) at
            
            
              (to be) in
            
            
              to exist
            
            
              in the middle of doing sth
            
            
              (indicating an action in progress)
            
            
              to depend on
            
            
              to rest with
            
            
              to be alive
            
         
        
                     
            
              this
            
            
              these
            
            
              (commonly pr. [zhèi] before a classifier, esp. in Beijing)
            
            
              the
            
            
              here
            
            
              now
            
            
              then
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              a controller; a control device; a sequencing unit
            
         
        
        
                     
            
              to see
            
            
              to look at
            
            
              to read
            
            
              to watch
            
            
              to visit
            
            
              to call on
            
            
              to consider
            
            
              to regard as
            
            
              to depend on
            
            
              to feel (that)
            
            
              (after verb) to give it a try
            
            
              Watch out! (for a danger)
            
            
              to consult a doctor
            
            
              to judge
            
         
        
                     
            
              famous
            
            
              prominent
            
            
              to write
            
            
              to compile
            
            
              writing
            
            
              literary work
            
            
              aboriginal
            
         
        
                     
            
              to dance
            
            
              to wield
            
            
              to brandish
            
            
              dance
            
            
              posture
            
            
              to prance
            
            
              to play tricks with
            
            
              to juggle
            
            
              to play with
            
         
        
                     
            
              variant of 臺 
            
            
              台tái [台]
            
            
              platform
            
            
              unit
            
            
              terrace
            
            
              tower
            
            
              stage
            
            
              support
            
            
              base
            
            
              station
            
            
              channel
            
            
              abbreviation for Taiwan
            
            
              classifier for machinery
            
         
        
                     
            
              to go
            
            
              to go to (a place)
            
            
              to cause to go or send (sb)
            
            
              (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth
            
            
              to be apart from in space or time
            
            
              (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)
            
            
              (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
            
            
              (of a time or an event etc) just passed or elapsed