撇開費用不說,建這座橋也會耗費不少的時間。

Apart from the cost, it will take long to build the bridge.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 撇開 piēkāi to disregard; to leave aside
2 費用 fèiyòng
  1. cost
  2. expenditure
  3. expense

classifiers: ,

3
  1. no; not so
  2. (bound form) not; un-
=4 shuì to persuade
=4 shuō
  1. to speak; to talk; to say
  2. to explain; to comment
  3. to scold; to tell off
  4. (bound form) theory; doctrine
=4 yuè
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of / (yuè, “happy; delighted”)
  2. alternative form of / (yuè, “happy; delighted”)
=4 tuō
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of / (“to free; to relieve”)
  2. alternative form of / (“to free; to relieve”)
5 jiàn
  1. to establish
  2. to found
  3. to set up
  4. to build
  5. to construct
=6 zhè
  1. (pronoun) this; these
  2. (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun)
  3. (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. zhèi, esp. in Beijing)
=6 zhèi (coll.) this
7 zuò
  1. seat
  2. base; stand
  3. (bound form) constellation
  4. (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address (e.g. 师座 shīzuò)
  5. classifier for large immovable objects such as buildings, mountains, bridges etc
8 qiáo bridge

classifier:

=9 surname Ye
=9
  1. also; too; as well; (not ...) either
  2. (used after a verbal or nominal expression X to indicate that X is an extreme or unexpected case) even (X)
  3. (literary) particle having functions similar to a
=10 huì
  1. can; to have the skill; to know how to
  2. to be likely to; to be sure to
  3. to meet; to get together
  4. meeting; gathering
  5. (suffix) union; group; association
  6. (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. huǐ)
=10 kuài (bound form) to reckon accounts
=10 kuò only used in 會撮会撮
11 耗費 hàofèi
  1. to waste
  2. to spend
  3. to consume
  4. to squander
12 不少 shǎo
  1. many
  2. a lot
  3. not few
=13 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 跑堂儿的 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
=13 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=13 really and truly
=13 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
14 時間 shíjiān
  1. (concept of) time
  2. (duration of) time
  3. (point in) time