得克萨斯州约是日本的两倍大。

Texas is nearly twice as large as Japan.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 得克萨斯 Dékèsàsī Texas, US state (an official transliteration, but less commonly used than 德克薩斯 Dékèsàsī)
2 州 zhōu
  1. prefecture
  2. (old) province
  3. (old) administrative division
  4. state (e.g. of US)
  5. oblast (Russia)
  6. canton (Switzerland)
=3 约 yāo to weigh in a balance or on a scale
=3 约 yuē
  1. to make an appointment
  2. to invite
  3. approximately
  4. pact
  5. treaty
  6. to economize
  7. to restrict
  8. to reduce (a fraction)
  9. concise
4 是日 shìrì
  1. (formal) this day
  2. that day
5 本 běn
  1. (bound form) root; stem
  2. (bound form) origin; source
  3. (bound form) one's own; this
  4. (bound form) this; the current (year etc)
  5. (bound form) original
  6. (bound form) inherent
  7. originally; initially
  8. capital; principal
  9. classifier for books, periodicals, files etc
=6 的 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 pígéde "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. dì or di in poetry and songs
=6 的 dī a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 dīshì)
=6 的 dí really and truly
=6 的 dì (bound form) bull's-eye; target
7 两倍 liǎngbèi
  1. twice as much
  2. double the amount
=8 大 dà
  1. big; large; great
  2. older (than another person)
  3. eldest (as in 大姐 dàjiě)
  4. greatly; freely; fully
  5. (dialect) father
  6. (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
=8 大 dài see 大夫 dàifu