他一坐下，就拿起了电话。

As soon as he sat down, he picked up the telephone.

Traditional

他一坐下，就拿起了電話。

Pinyin

Tā yí zuòxia, jiù ná qǐle diànhuà.

Bopomofo

ㄊㄚ ㄧˊ ㄗㄨㄛˋ ˙ㄒㄧㄚ，ㄐㄧㄡˋ ㄋㄚˊ ㄑㄧˇ ˙ㄌㄜ ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄏㄨㄚˋ。

Where this sentence comes from

This sentence is from Tatoeba, contributed by verdastelo9604, with the English translation by CK. It is used here under CC BY 2.0 FR.

Tatoeba writes this sentence in traditional characters: 他一坐下，就拿起了電話。 Chinese Boost builds every reading of a sentence from simplified characters, so it has been converted here.

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