当里约热内卢的一条高架自行车道倒塌时,有2人被砸死了。

Two persons were killed when an elevated bike path collapsed in Rio.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 dāng
  1. (onom.) dong
  2. ding dong (bell)
=1 dāng
  1. to be
  2. to act as
  3. manage
  4. withstand
  5. when
  6. during
  7. ought
  8. should
  9. match equally
  10. equal
  11. same
  12. obstruct
  13. just at (a time or place)
  14. on the spot
  15. right
  16. just at
=1 dàng
  1. at or in the very same...
  2. suitable
  3. adequate
  4. fitting
  5. proper
  6. to replace
  7. to regard as
  8. to think
  9. to pawn
  10. (coll.) to fail (a student)
=2 里约热内卢 yuēnèi Rio de Janeiro
=2 里约热内卢 yuē nèi
  1. (~) Rio de Janeiro (a state of the Southeast Region, Brazil)
  2. Rio de Janeiro (a municipality, the state capital of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
  3. Rio de Janeiro (a state of the Southeast Region, Brazil)
=3 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
=3 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=3 really and truly
=3 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
4
  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 tiáo
  1. strip
  2. item
  3. article
  4. clause (of law or treaty)
  5. classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)
6 高架 gāojià
  1. overhead
  2. elevated (walkway, highway etc)
  3. elevated road
7 自行车道 xíngchēdào bike path; bicycle trail; bike lane
8 倒塌 dǎo
  1. to collapse (of building)
  2. to topple over
=9 shí old variant of shí
=9 Shí surname Shi
=9 shí
  1. o'clock
  2. time
  3. when
  4. hour
  5. season
  6. period
=10 yǒu
  1. to have; there is
  2. (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意 yǒu intentional)
=10 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)”)
11 rén person; people

classifiers: ,

=12 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")
=12
  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”)
=12
  1. alternative form of (bǐ, “that”)
  2. alternative form of (bì, “wig”)
=12 alternative form of
13 砸死 to crush to death
=14 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=14 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)
=14 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=14 liào unofficial variant of liào