在這二百年來,有很多人從農村搬到了市區居住。

This movement from rural to urban areas has been going on for over two hundred years.

Source: Tatoeba

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 zhè
  1. (pronoun) this; these
  2. (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun)
  3. (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. zhèi, esp. in Beijing)
=2 zhèi (coll.) this
3 èr
  1. two
  2. 2
  3. (Beijing dialect) stupid
4 百年 bǎinián
  1. hundred years
  2. century
  3. lifetime
5 lái
  1. to come
  2. (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)
  3. hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回来 huílai)
  4. ever since (as in 自古以来 lái)
  5. for the past (amount of time)
  6. (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 来世 láishì)
  7. (between two verbs) in order to
  8. (after a round number) approximately
  9. (used after to indicate possibility, as in 谈得来 tándelái, or after to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不来 chībulái)
=6 yǒu
  1. to have; there is
  2. (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意 yǒu intentional)
=6 yòu
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (yòu, “again”)
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (yòu, “and; with a remainder of (when dividing an integer by ten)”)
  3. alternative form of (yòu, “again”)
  4. alternative form of (yòu, “and; with a remainder of (when dividing an integer by ten)”)
7 很多 hěnduō many; much; a lot
8 人從 réncóng
  1. retinue
  2. hangers-on
9 農村 nóngcūn
  1. rural area
  2. village

classifier:

10 bān
  1. to move (i.e. relocate oneself)
  2. to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky)
  3. to shift
  4. to copy indiscriminately
11 到了 dàoliǎo
  1. at last
  2. finally
  3. in the end
12 市區 shì
  1. urban district
  2. downtown
  3. city center
13 居住 zhù
  1. to reside
  2. to dwell
  3. to live in a place
  4. resident in