在很多国家,购买和吸食大麻是违法的。

In many countries, buying or smoking cannabis is forbidden by law.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 zài
  1. to exist; to be alive
  2. (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
  3. (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
2 很多 hěnduō many; much; a lot
3 国家 guójiā country; nation; state

classifier:

4 购买 gòumǎi to purchase; to buy
=5 old variant of
=5 surname He
=5
  1. (joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. hàn)
  2. (math.) sum
  3. to make peace
  4. (sports) to draw; to tie
  5. (bound form) harmonious
  6. (bound form) Japan; Japanese
=5
  1. to compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence
  2. to join in the singing
  3. to chime in with others
=5 to complete a set in mahjong or playing cards
=5 huó
  1. to combine a powdery substance (flour, plaster etc) with water
  2. Taiwan pr. huò
=5 huò
  1. to mix (ingredients) together
  2. to blend
  3. classifier for rinses of clothes
  4. classifier for boilings of medicinal herbs
=5 (literary) harmonious (variant of )
=5 huo
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) warm
  2. warm
6 吸食 shí
  1. (of an insect) to drink (nectar, sap, blood etc)
  2. (of a person) to take (a narcotic drug)
  3. to drink through a straw
=7 大麻
  1. hemp (Cannabis sativa)
  2. cannabis
  3. marijuana
=7 大麻
  1. (~) Dama (a town in Dabu, Meizhou, Guangdong)
  2. (~) Dama (a town in Tongxiang, Jiaxing, Zhejiang)
  3. Dama (a town in Dabu, Meizhou, Guangdong)
  4. Dama (a town in Tongxiang, Jiaxing, Zhejiang)
=8 shì
  1. to be (followed by substantives only)
  2. correct; right; true
  3. (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
  4. (adverb for emphatic assertion)
=8 shì variant of shì
9 违法 wéi
  1. illegal
  2. to break the law
=10 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 de "one made of leather" or 跑堂儿的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. or di in poetry and songs
=10 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=10 really and truly
=10 (bound form) bull's-eye; target