成千上万的士兵和市民死去了。

Thousands upon thousands of soldiers and civilians died.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 成千上万 chéngqiānshàngwàn
  1. lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom)
  2. fig. untold numbers; innumerable; countless
2 的士 shì taxi (loanword)
3 bīng
  1. soldiers
  2. a force
  3. an army
  4. weapons
  5. arms
  6. military
  7. warlike

classifier:

=4 old variant of
=4 surname He
=4
  1. (joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. hàn)
  2. (math.) sum
  3. to make peace
  4. (sports) to draw; to tie
  5. (bound form) harmonious
  6. (bound form) Japan; Japanese
=4
  1. to compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence
  2. to join in the singing
  3. to chime in with others
=4 to complete a set in mahjong or playing cards
=4 huó
  1. to combine a powdery substance (flour, plaster etc) with water
  2. Taiwan pr. huò
=4 huò
  1. to mix (ingredients) together
  2. to blend
  3. classifier for rinses of clothes
  4. classifier for boilings of medicinal herbs
=4 (literary) harmonious (variant of )
=4 huo
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) warm
  2. warm
5 市民 shìmín city resident
6 死去 to die
=7 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=7 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)
=7 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=7 liào unofficial variant of liào