许多自然环境保护主义者担心持续屠杀鲸鱼正推动这些动物走向灭绝。

Many conservationists fear the continuing slaughter of whales is pushing these animals towards extinction.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 许多 xǔduō
  1. many
  2. a lot of
  3. much
2 自然环境 zìránhuánjìng natural environment
3 保护主义 bǎohùzhǔyì protectionism
4 者 zhě
  1. (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...
  2. (after a noun) person involved in ...
  3. -er
  4. -ist
  5. (used after a number or 后 hòu or 前 qián to refer to sth mentioned previously)
  6. (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term)
  7. (old) (used at the end of a command)
  8. (old) this
5 担心 dānxīn
  1. anxious
  2. worried
  3. uneasy
  4. to worry
  5. to be anxious
6 持续 chíxù
  1. to continue
  2. to persist
  3. to last
  4. sustainable
  5. preservation
7 屠杀 túshā to massacre; to slaughter
8 鲸鱼 jīngyú whale

classifier: 條
=9 正 zhēng first month of the lunar year
=9 正 zhèng
  1. straight
  2. upright
  3. proper
  4. main
  5. principal
  6. to correct
  7. to rectify
  8. exactly
  9. just (at that time)
  10. right (in that place)
  11. (math.) positive
10 推动 tuīdòng to push (e.g. for acceptance of a plan); to promote; to give impetus to
11 这些 zhèxiē these
12 动物 dòngwù animal

classifiers: 隻, 群, 個
13 走向 zǒuxiàng
  1. direction
  2. strike (i.e. angle of inclination in geology)
  3. inclination
  4. trend
  5. to move towards
  6. to head for
14 灭绝 mièjué
  1. to become extinct; to die out
  2. to lose (sth abstract) completely
  3. to exterminate