要在一個像東京一樣的大都市裡過活，不借錢是很困難的。

It's really difficult to survive in a big city like Tokyo without going into debt.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 要 yāo (bound form) to demand; to coerce
=1 要 yào
  1. to want; to need; to ask for
  2. will; shall; about to
  3. need to; should
  4. if (same as 要是 yàoshi)
  5. (bound form) important
=1 要 yǎo
  1. (archaic) alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  2. alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  3. used in 要褭／要袅
2 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)
=3 一個 yīge
  1. a; an; one
  2. the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
=3 一個 yīgè
  1. Combination of the numeral 一 (“one”) and the generic classifier 個／个: a; an; one
  2. same
4 像 xiàng
  1. to resemble
  2. to be like
  3. to look as if
  4. such as
  5. appearance
  6. image
  7. portrait
  8. image under a mapping (math.)
5 東京 Dōngjīng
  1. Tokyo, capital of Japan
  2. Tonkin (northern Vietnam during the French colonial period)
6 一樣 yīyàng
  1. same
  2. like
  3. equal to
  4. the same as
  5. just like
=7 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
=7 的 dī a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 dīshì)
=7 的 dí really and truly
=7 的 dì (bound form) bull's-eye; target
8 大都市 dàdūshì
  1. metropolis
  2. large city
  3. megacity
9 裡 lǐ
  1. lining
  2. interior
  3. inside
  4. internal
  5. also written 里 lǐ
10 過活 guòhuó
  1. to live one's life
  2. to make a living
11 不 bù
  1. no; not so
  2. (bound form) not; un-
12 借錢 jièqián to borrow money; to lend money
=13 是 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)
=13 是 shì variant of 是 shì
14 很 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
15 困難 kùnnan
  1. difficult
  2. challenging
  3. straitened circumstances
  4. difficult situation
=16 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
=16 的 dī a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 dīshì)
=16 的 dí really and truly
=16 的 dì (bound form) bull's-eye; target