大炸彈從天而降,奪走了許多人的生命。

A big bomb fell, and a great many people lost their lives.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1
  1. big; large; great
  2. older (than another person)
  3. eldest (as in 大姐 jiě)
  4. greatly; freely; fully
  5. (dialect) father
  6. (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
=1 dài see 大夫 dàifu
2 炸彈 zhàdàn bomb

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=3 從天而降 cóngtiānérjiàng
  1. (idiom) to fall from the sky
  2. (idiom) (fig.) to appear unexpectedly; to drop into one's lap
=3 從天而降 cóngtiān'érjiàng to happen all of a sudden; to happen out of the blue; to come out of nowhere
4 奪走 duózǒu to snatch away
=5 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=5 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)
=5 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=5 liào unofficial variant of liào
6 許多 duō
  1. many
  2. a lot of
  3. much
7 rén person; people

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=8 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
=8 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=8 really and truly
=8 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
9 生命 shēngmìng life (as the characteristic of living beings)

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