家里的洗碗机算是厨房水槽旁洗碗工的对手。

The washing-up machine at home was regarded as a rival to the worker at the kitchen sink.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 家里的 jiālidě
  1. (colloquial) wife
  2. wife
2 洗碗机 xǐwǎnjī dishwasher
3 算是 suànshì
  1. considered to be
  2. at last
4 厨房 chúfáng kitchen

classifier: 間
5 水槽 shuǐcáo sink
=6 旁 páng
  1. one side
  2. other
  3. different
  4. lateral component of a Chinese character (such as 刂 dāo, 亻 rén etc)
=6 旁 bàng
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 傍 (“to be near to; to approach; to depend on; to rely on”)
  2. alternative form of 傍 (“to be near to; to approach; to depend on; to rely on”)
=6 旁 péng only used in 旁勃
=6 旁 bēng only used in 旁旁 (bēngbēng)
7 洗碗 xǐwǎn to wash the dishes
8 工 gōng
  1. work
  2. worker
  3. skill
  4. profession
  5. trade
  6. craft
  7. labor
=9 的 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 pígéde "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. dì or di in poetry and songs
=9 的 dī a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 dīshì)
=9 的 dí really and truly
=9 的 dì (bound form) bull's-eye; target
10 对手 duìshǒu
  1. opponent
  2. rival
  3. competitor
  4. (well-matched) adversary
  5. match