紫三葉草是一種被蜜蜂用來當作食物來源的植物。

Purple clover is a type of plant that bees use as a source of food.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1
  1. purple
  2. violet
2 三葉草 sāncǎo
  1. clover
  2. trefoil
=3 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)
=3 shì variant of shì
4 一種 zhǒng one kind of; one type of
=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 蜜蜂 fēng
  1. bee
  2. honeybee

classifiers: ,

7 用來 yònglái to be used for
8 當作 dàngzuò
  1. to treat as
  2. to regard as
9 食物 shí food
10 來源 láiyuán
  1. source (of information etc)
  2. origin
=11 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
=11 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=11 really and truly
=11 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
12 植物 zhí
  1. plant
  2. vegetation

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