沒有空氣生活是不可能的。

To live without air is impossible.

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 氣 qì
  1. gas; air
  2. smell
  3. weather
  4. to make angry; to annoy; to get angry
  5. vital energy; qi
=2 氣 xì
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Original form of 餼／饩 (xì, “to give food as a gift”).
  2. Original form of 餼／饩 (xì, “to give food as a gift”).
3 生活 shēnghuó
  1. to live
  2. life
  3. livelihood
=4 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)
=4 是 shì variant of 是 shì
5 不可能 bùkěnéng
  1. impossible
  2. cannot
  3. not able
=6 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
=6 的 dī a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 dīshì)
=6 的 dí really and truly
=6 的 dì (bound form) bull's-eye; target