羊羔通常在一歲前被宰殺吃掉。

Lambs are usually killed before they are one year old and eaten by humans.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 羊羔 yánggāo lamb
2 通常 tōngcháng
  1. regular; usual; normal
  2. usually; normally
3 在 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)
4 一 yī
  1. one
  2. single
  3. a (article)
  4. as soon as
  5. entire; whole; all; throughout
  6. "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
  7. also pr. yāo for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
5 歲 suì
  1. classifier for years (of age)
  2. year
  3. year (of crop harvests)
6 前 qián
  1. front
  2. forward
  3. ahead
  4. first
  5. top (followed by a number)
  6. future
  7. ago
  8. before
  9. BC (e.g. 前293年)
  10. former
  11. formerly
=7 被 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 被旅遊 bèilu:yóu to "go on a trip")
=7 被 pī
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 披 (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
  2. alternative form of 披 (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
=7 被 bì
  1. alternative form of 彼 (bǐ, “that”)
  2. alternative form of 髲 (bì, “wig”)
=7 被 pì alternative form of 帔
8 宰殺 zǎishā
  1. to slaughter (an animal for meat)
  2. to butcher
9 吃掉 chīdiào
  1. to eat up
  2. to consume