被征服的人永遠是錯的。歷史只記得他們的失敗。

Those who are defeated are always wrong. History only remembers their failure.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 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")
=1
  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”)
=1
  1. alternative form of (bǐ, “that”)
  2. alternative form of (bì, “wig”)
=1 alternative form of
2 征服 zhēng
  1. to conquer
  2. to subdue
  3. to vanquish
=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 rén person; people

classifiers: ,

5 永遠 yǒngyuǎn
  1. forever
  2. eternal
=6 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 shì variant of shì
=7 Cuò surname Cuo
=7 cuò
  1. mistake
  2. wrong
  3. bad
  4. interlocking
  5. complex
  6. to grind
  7. to polish
  8. to alternate
  9. to stagger
  10. to miss
  11. to let slip
  12. to evade
  13. to inlay with gold or silver
=7
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (cuò, “to abandon; to cease; to reject”)
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (cuò, “to place; to carry out”)
  3. alternative form of (cuò, “to abandon; to cease; to reject”)
  4. alternative form of (cuò, “to place; to carry out”)
=7
  1. (chemistry, obsolete) Alternative name for (shì, “cerium”).
  2. Alternative name for (shì, “cerium”).
=8 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
=8 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=8 really and truly
=8 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
9 歷史 shǐ history

classifiers: ,

=10 zhī variant of zhī
=10 zhǐ only; merely; just
=10 zhǐ variant of zhǐ
=10 zhī grain that has begun to ripen
=10 zhǐ variant of zhǐ
=10 zhī classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
11 記得 de to remember
12 他們 men they; them
=13 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
=13 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=13 really and truly
=13 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
14 失敗 shībài
  1. to be defeated
  2. to lose
  3. to fail (e.g. experiments)
  4. failure
  5. defeat

classifier: