那些一无是处的废物被炒了。

Those good-for-nothing layabouts were sacked.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 那些 xiē those
2 一无是处 shìchù (idiom) not one good point; everything about it is wrong
=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 废物 fèi
  1. rubbish; waste material
  2. useless person
=4 废物 fèiwu
  1. (derogatory) incompetent person; useless individual; good-for-nothing
  2. incompetent person; useless individual; good-for-nothing
=5 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")
=5
  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”)
=5
  1. alternative form of (bǐ, “that”)
  2. alternative form of (bì, “wig”)
=5 alternative form of
6 chǎo
  1. to sauté; to stir-fry
  2. to speculate (in real estate etc); to scalp
  3. to hype up
  4. to sack; to fire (sb)
=7 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=7 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)
=7 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=7 liào unofficial variant of liào