沒有水，人類就活不下去。

If it weren't for water, humans wouldn't survive.

Without water, people couldn't live.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 沒有 méiyǒu
  1. haven't
  2. hasn't
  3. doesn't exist
  4. to not have
  5. to not be
=2 水 Shuǐ surname Shui
=2 水 shuǐ
  1. water
  2. (after a name) ... River
  3. to swim (used mostly in 會水 huìshuǐ and 水性 shuǐxìng)
  4. (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy
  5. (bound form) additional cost; extra income
  6. classifier for washings of a garment
3 人類 rénlèi
  1. humanity
  2. human race
  3. mankind
4 就活 jiuhuò
  1. (regional, colloquial) to make do (with)
  2. to make do (with)
5 不下 bùxià to be not less than (a certain quantity, amount etc)
6 去 qù
  1. to go
  2. to go to (a place)
  3. (of a time etc) last
  4. just passed
  5. to send
  6. to remove
  7. to get rid of
  8. to reduce
  9. to be apart from in space or time
  10. to die (euphemism)
  11. to play (a part)
  12. (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth
  13. (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)
  14. (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)