數十人在倫敦火車事故中喪生。

Dozens of people were killed in a train accident in London.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 數十 shùshí scores, dozens
2 人 rén person; people

classifiers: 個, 位
3 在 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)
4 倫敦 Lúndūn London, capital of United Kingdom
5 火車 huǒchē train

classifiers: 列, 節, 班, 趟
6 事故 shìgù accident

classifiers: 樁, 起, 次
=7 中 Zhōng
  1. (bound form) China; Chinese
  2. surname Zhong
=7 中 zhōng
  1. within; among; in
  2. middle; center
  3. while (doing sth); during
  4. (dialect) OK; all right
=7 中 zhòng
  1. to hit (a target)
  2. to be struck by (a bullet, illness etc)
  3. to win (a prize or lottery)
8 喪生 sàngshēng
  1. to die
  2. to lose one's life