大多數被香煙害死的人吸的煙都不多。

Most people killed by smoking were not heavy smokers.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 大多數 duōshù (great) majority
=2 bèi
  1. quilt
  2. to cover (with)
  3. (literary) to suffer (a misfortune)
  4. used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb)
  5. (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 bèilu:yóu to "go on a trip")
=2
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
  2. alternative form of (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
=2
  1. alternative form of (bǐ, “that”)
  2. alternative form of (bì, “wig”)
=2 alternative form of
3 香煙 xiāngyān smoke from incense (burned as an offering to one's ancestors); (fig.) continuation of family line

classifiers: , , , ,

4 害死 hài
  1. to kill
  2. to cause death
  3. to do sb to death
=5 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
=5 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=5 really and truly
=5 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
6 rén person; people

classifiers: ,

7
  1. to breathe
  2. to suck in
  3. to absorb
  4. to inhale
=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
=8 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=8 really and truly
=8 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
9 yān
  1. cigarette or pipe tobacco
  2. smoke
  3. mist
  4. vapour
  5. tobacco plant
  6. (of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke

classifiers: ,

=10 surname Du
=10 dōu
  1. all; both; entirely
  2. (used for emphasis) even
  3. already
  4. (not) at all
=10
  1. capital city
  2. metropolis
11 不多 duō not many; not much