我们不能愁闷地看着这个城市就这样衰退下去。

We can't just look on dejectedly while this city continues to go into decline.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 我们 men we; us; ourselves; our
2 不能 néng
  1. cannot
  2. must not
  3. should not
3 愁闷 chóumèn
  1. depressed
  2. gloomy
=4 de
  1. -ly
  2. structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
=4
  1. earth
  2. ground
  3. field
  4. place
  5. land

classifier:

=5 kān
  1. to look after
  2. to take care of
  3. to watch
  4. to guard
=5 kàn
  1. to see; to look at
  2. to read
  3. to watch
  4. to visit; to call on
  5. to consider; to regard as
  6. to look after
  7. to treat (a patient or illness)
  8. to depend on
  9. to feel (that)
  10. (after a verb) to give it a try
  11. to watch out for
=6 zhāo
  1. a move in chess (Taiwan pr. zhuó)
  2. trick; tactic
  3. (dialect) okay; all right
  4. (dialect) to put in; to add
=6 zháo
  1. to touch
  2. to come in contact with
  3. to feel
  4. to be affected by
  5. to catch fire
  6. to burn
  7. (coll.) to fall asleep
  8. (after a verb) hitting the mark
  9. succeeding in
=6 zhe aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state
=6 zhuó
  1. to wear (clothes)
  2. to contact
  3. to use
  4. to apply
7 这个 zhège
  1. (pronoun) this
  2. (adjective) this
8 城市 chéngshì city; town

classifier:

9 jiù
  1. (after a suppositional clause) in that case; then
  2. (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after
  3. (same as 就是 jiùshì) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly
  4. only; as little as
  5. as much as; as many as
  6. to approach; to move towards
  7. to undertake; to engage in
  8. (often followed by zhe) taking advantage of
  9. (of food) to go with
  10. with regard to; concerning
  11. (pattern: jiù ... ...) even if ... still ...
  12. (pattern: ... jiù ...) if not ... then must be ...
10 这样 zhèyàng
  1. this kind of
  2. so
  3. this way
  4. like this
  5. such
11 衰退 shuāituì
  1. to decline
  2. to fall
  3. to drop
  4. to falter
  5. a decline
  6. recession (in economics)
12 下去 xià
  1. to go down
  2. to descend
  3. to go on
  4. to continue
  5. (of a servant) to withdraw