瓜地馬拉曾經被稱作香蕉共和國。

Guatemala was once qualified as a banana republic.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 瓜地馬拉 Guādìmǎlā (Tw) Guatemala
2 曾經 céngjīng
  1. once
  2. already
  3. former
  4. previously
  5. ever
  6. (past tense marker used before verb or clause)
=3 被 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 被旅遊 bèilu:yóu to "go on a trip")
=3 被 pī
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 披 (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
  2. alternative form of 披 (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
=3 被 bì
  1. alternative form of 彼 (bǐ, “that”)
  2. alternative form of 髲 (bì, “wig”)
=3 被 pì alternative form of 帔
4 稱作 chēngzuò to be called; to be known as
5 香蕉共和國 xiāngjiāogònghéguó banana republic