车子若是掉落悬崖他们早就没命了。

They'd have been killed if the car had gone over the cliff.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 车子 chēzi car or other vehicle (bicycle, truck etc)
=1 车子 chēzǐ
  1. (Classical) cart driver; coachman
  2. cart driver; coachman
2 若是 ruòshì if
3 掉落 diàoluò to fall down
4 悬崖 xuányá
  1. precipice
  2. overhanging cliff
5 他们 tāmen they; them
6 早就 zǎojiù already at an earlier time
7 没命 méimìng
  1. to lose one's life
  2. to die
  3. recklessly
  4. desperately
=8 了 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=8 了 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with 得 dé or 不 bù after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 無 wú or 不 bù) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of 瞭 liǎo)
=8 了 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=8 了 liào unofficial variant of 瞭 liào