小星系「只」有數千顆星,最大的星系則有數萬億顆。

Smaller galaxies have "only" a few thousand stars. The biggest ones have trillions.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 xiǎo
  1. small
  2. tiny
  3. few
  4. young
2 星系 xīng see 恆星系 héngxīng
=3 zhī variant of zhī
=3 zhǐ only; merely; just
=3 zhǐ variant of zhǐ
=3 zhī grain that has begun to ripen
=3 zhǐ variant of zhǐ
=3 zhī classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
4 有數 yǒushù
  1. to have kept count; to know how many; (fig.) to know exactly how things stand; to know the score
  2. not many; only a few
=5 qiān thousand
=5 qiān used in 鞦韆 qiūqiān
6 顆星 xīng
  1. (Taiwan, sports) cushion (the lip around a table in cue sports which absorbs some of the impact of the billiard balls and bounces them back)
  2. cushion (the lip around a table in cue sports which absorbs some of the impact of the billiard balls and bounces them back)
7 最大 zuì largest; biggest; greatest; maximum; maximal
=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 跑堂兒的 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 星系 xīng see 恆星系 héngxīng
10
  1. (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then
  2. (bound form) standard; norm
  3. (bound form) principle
  4. (literary) to imitate; to follow
  5. classifier for written items
11 有數 yǒushù
  1. to have kept count; to know how many; (fig.) to know exactly how things stand; to know the score
  2. not many; only a few
12 萬億 wàn trillion
13 classifier for small spheres, pearls, corn grains, teeth, hearts, satellites etc