美國人快餐食物的消耗量在一九七七至一九九五年間大幅增長了三倍。

In America, the consumption of fast-food has tripled between 1977 and 1995.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 美國人 Měiguórén
  1. American
  2. American person
  3. American people

classifier:

=1 美國人 měiguórén US American person; US American people; Usonian(s)
2 快餐 kuàicān
  1. fast food
  2. snack
  3. quick meal
3 食物 shí food
=4 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 跑堂兒的 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
=4 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=4 really and truly
=4 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
5 消耗量 xiāohàoliàng rate of consumption
6 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)
7
  1. one
  2. single
  3. a (article)
  4. as soon as
  5. entire; whole; all; throughout
  6. "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
  7. also pr. yāo for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
8 jiǔ
  1. nine
  2. 9
9
  1. seven
  2. 7
10
  1. seven
  2. 7
=11 zhì
  1. to arrive
  2. most
  3. to
  4. until
=11 dié only used in 單至单至
12
  1. one
  2. single
  3. a (article)
  4. as soon as
  5. entire; whole; all; throughout
  6. "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
  7. also pr. yāo for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
13 九九 jiǔjiǔ
  1. (literary) last of the nine nine-day periods; ninth nine-day period
  2. (literary) nine nine-day periods (eighty-one days) starting from a solstice (usually the winter solstice)
  3. Alternative term for 重陽節重阳节 (Chóngyángjié, “Double Ninth Festival”).
  4. eighty-one; nine nines
  5. last of the nine nine-day periods; ninth nine-day period
  6. multiplication table; nine-nine
  7. nine nine-day periods (eighty-one days) starting from a solstice (usually the winter solstice)
14
  1. five
  2. 5
15 年間 niánjiān
  1. in the years of
  2. during those years
  3. period (of dynasty or decade)
16 大幅
  1. large-format (picture, banner, photo etc)
  2. substantially; by a wide margin
17 增長 zēngzhǎng to grow; to increase
=18 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=18 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with or after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as or ) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of liǎo)
=18 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=18 liào unofficial variant of liào
19 三倍 sānbèi triple