在第三季時銷售跌了下來。

Sales fell off in the third quarter.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 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)
2 第三 dì-sān
  1. third
  2. thirdly
=3 季 Jì surname Ji
=3 季 jì
  1. season
  2. the last month of a season
  3. fourth or youngest amongst brothers
  4. classifier for seasonal crop yields
=4 時 Shí surname Shi
=4 時 shí
  1. o'clock
  2. time
  3. when
  4. hour
  5. season
  6. period
5 銷售 xiāoshòu
  1. to sell
  2. to market
  3. sales (representative, agreement etc)
6 跌 diē
  1. to fall
  2. to tumble
  3. to trip
  4. (of prices etc) to drop
  5. Taiwan pr. dié
=7 了 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=7 了 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with 得 dé or 不 bù after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 無 wú or 不 bù) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of 瞭 liǎo)
=7 了 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=7 了 liào unofficial variant of 瞭 liào
=8 下來 xiàlai
  1. to come down
  2. (completed action marker)
  3. (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.)
  4. (indicates continuation from the past towards us)
  5. to be harvested (of crops)
  6. to be over (of a period of time)
  7. to go among the masses (said of leaders)
=8 下來 xiàlái
  1. (used after a verb) down (toward oneself, or figuratively)
  2. down (toward oneself, or figuratively)
  3. to come down