对生命来说，食物永远是必要的。

Food is always necessary for life.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 对生 duìshēng
  1. (botany) opposite leaf arrangement
  2. paired leaf arrangement
2 命 mìng
  1. life
  2. fate
  3. order or command
  4. to assign a name, title etc
3 来说 láishuō concerning; about
4 食物 shíwù food
5 永远 yǒngyuǎn
  1. forever
  2. eternal
=6 是 shì
  1. to be (followed by substantives only)
  2. correct; right; true
  3. (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
  4. (adverb for emphatic assertion)
=6 是 shì variant of 是 shì
7 必要 bìyào
  1. necessary
  2. essential
  3. indispensable
  4. required
=8 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
=8 的 dī a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 dīshì)
=8 的 dí really and truly
=8 的 dì (bound form) bull's-eye; target