最近对外贸易活动减少了。

The activity of foreign trade has been declining of late.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 最近 zuìjìn
  1. recently
  2. soon
  3. nearest
2 对外贸易 duìwàimàoyì foreign trade
3 活动 huódòng
  1. to exercise; to move about; to work out
  2. shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc)
  3. movable; flexible; liquid (capital etc)
  4. (volcanic, seismic, economic etc) activity
  5. to use personal influence, connections, bribes etc

classifier: 項
4 减少 jiǎnshǎo to lessen; to decrease; to reduce; to lower
=5 了 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=5 了 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with 得 dé or 不 bù after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 無 wú or 不 bù) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of 瞭 liǎo)
=5 了 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=5 了 liào unofficial variant of 瞭 liào