买票的人龙竟然那么长！

The queue for buying tickets was unbelievably long.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 买票 mǎipiào
  1. to buy tickets
  2. (Tw) to buy votes (in an election)
=2 的 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 pígéde "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. dì or di in poetry and songs
=2 的 dī a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 dīshì)
=2 的 dí really and truly
=2 的 dì (bound form) bull's-eye; target
3 人龙 rénlóng a queue of people
4 竟然 jìngrán
  1. unexpectedly
  2. to one's surprise
  3. in spite of everything
  4. in that crazy way
  5. actually
  6. to go as far as to
=5 那么 nàme
  1. like that; in that way; to that extent
  2. (before a number) ... or so; about ...
  3. then; in that case
=5 那么 nàme variant of 那么 nàme
=6 长 cháng
  1. long
  2. (bound form) length
  3. (bound form) strong point; forte
  4. (bound form) to be good at
  5. (literary) surplus; spare (Taiwan pr. zhàng)
=6 长 zhǎng
  1. chief
  2. head
  3. elder
  4. to grow
  5. to develop
  6. to increase
  7. to enhance