总是 (zǒngshì) means Always. Below are 5 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
From the graded readers
她 总是 先问:“你觉得呢?”
tā zǒngshì xiān wèn:" nǐ juéde ne / ní?"
She always asks first, "What do you think?"
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Chinese Teacher
我睡得很晚,第二天上班 总是 没精神。
wǒ shuì dehěn wǎn, dì'èr tiānshàng bān zǒngshì méi jīngshén.
I was going to sleep late, and always felt flat at work the next day.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Neighbour Upstairs
Questions about 总是
How is 总是 used in a sentence?
This page shows 5 sentences using 总是 (zǒngshì, "Always"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 总是 an HSK word?
Yes — 总是 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 总是?
The dictionary page for 总是 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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