在十九世纪三十年代的大萧条时期,许多富人在股市崩盘中失去了一切。

During the Depression in the 1930's, many wealthy people lost everything in the stock market crash.

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Sentence Composition

1 zài
  1. to exist; to be alive
  2. (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
  3. (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
2 十九 shíjiǔ
  1. nineteen
  2. 19
3 世纪 shì century

classifier:

4 三十 sānshí
  1. thirty
  2. 30
5 年代 niándài
  1. a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties)
  2. age
  3. era
  4. period

classifier:

=6 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 跑堂儿的 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
=6 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=6 really and truly
=6 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
=7 大萧条 Xiāotiáo the Great Depression (1929-c. 1939)
=7 大萧条 xiāotiáo
  1. (economics, business, finance, historical) Great Depression
  2. Great Depression
8 时期 shí
  1. period
  2. phase

classifier:

9 许多 duō
  1. many
  2. a lot of
  3. much
10 富人 rén
  1. rich person
  2. the rich
11 zài
  1. to exist; to be alive
  2. (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
  3. (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
12 股市 shì stock market
13 崩盘 bēngpán
  1. (finance) to crash
  2. to collapse
  3. crash
=14 Zhōng
  1. (bound form) China; Chinese
  2. surname Zhong
=14 zhōng
  1. within; among; in
  2. middle; center
  3. while (doing sth); during
  4. (dialect) OK; all right
=14 zhòng
  1. to hit (a target)
  2. to be struck by (a bullet, illness etc)
  3. to win (a prize or lottery)
15 失去 shī to lose
=16 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=16 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)
=16 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=16 liào unofficial variant of liào
17 一切 qiè
  1. everything
  2. every
  3. all