沒有空氣和水,人類就無法生存。

Both air and water are indispensable for life.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 沒有空 méiyǒukòng
  1. (Singapore Mandarin) to be unavailable; to be busy; to be not free
  2. to be unavailable; to be busy; to be not free
=2
  1. gas; air
  2. smell
  3. weather
  4. to make angry; to annoy; to get angry
  5. vital energy; qi
=2
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Original form of (xì, “to give food as a gift”).
  2. Original form of (xì, “to give food as a gift”).
=3 old variant of
=3 surname He
=3
  1. (joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. hàn)
  2. (math.) sum
  3. to make peace
  4. (sports) to draw; to tie
  5. (bound form) harmonious
  6. (bound form) Japan; Japanese
=3
  1. to compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence
  2. to join in the singing
  3. to chime in with others
=3 to complete a set in mahjong or playing cards
=3 huó
  1. to combine a powdery substance (flour, plaster etc) with water
  2. Taiwan pr. huò
=3 huò
  1. to mix (ingredients) together
  2. to blend
  3. classifier for rinses of clothes
  4. classifier for boilings of medicinal herbs
=3 (literary) harmonious (variant of )
=3 huo
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) warm
  2. warm
=4 Shuǐ surname Shui
=4 shuǐ
  1. water
  2. (after a name) ... River
  3. to swim (used mostly in 会水 huìshuǐ and 水性 shuǐxìng)
  4. (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy
  5. (bound form) additional cost; extra income
  6. classifier for washings of a garment
5 人類 rénlèi
  1. humanity
  2. human race
  3. mankind
6 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 ...
7 無法 unable to; incapable of
8 生存 shēngcún
  1. to exist
  2. to survive