消防隊很快就把大火撲熄。

The firemen quickly extinguished the blaze.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 消防隊 xiāofángduì
  1. fire brigade
  2. fire department
2 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
3 kuài
  1. rapid
  2. quick
  3. speed
  4. rate
  5. soon
  6. almost
  7. to make haste
  8. clever
  9. sharp (of knives or wits)
  10. forthright
  11. plainspoken
  12. gratified
  13. pleased
  14. pleasant
4 jiù
  1. (after a suppositional clause) in that case; then
  2. (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after
  3. (same as 就是 jiùshì) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly
  4. only; as little as
  5. as much as; as many as
  6. to approach; to move towards
  7. to undertake; to engage in
  8. (often followed by zhe) taking advantage of
  9. (of food) to go with
  10. with regard to; concerning
  11. (pattern: jiù ... ...) even if ... still ...
  12. (pattern: ... jiù ...) if not ... then must be ...
=5
  1. to hold; to grasp
  2. to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate
  3. handlebar
  4. classifier: handful, bundle, bunch
  5. classifier for things with handles
  6. (used to put the object before the verb: + {noun} + {verb})
=5 handle
=5
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (pá, “to scratch”)
  2. a surname
  3. alternative form of (pá, “to scratch”)
6 大火 huǒ conflagration; large fire

classifier:

7
  1. to throw oneself at
  2. to pounce on
  3. to devote one's energies
  4. to flap
  5. to flutter
  6. to dab
  7. to pat
  8. to bend over
8
  1. to extinguish
  2. to put out (fire)
  3. to quench
  4. to stop burning
  5. to go out (of fire, lamp etc)
  6. to come to an end
  7. to wither away
  8. to die out
  9. Taiwan pr.