大使是为了本国的利益被派去外国撒谎的正直的人。

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 大使 shǐ
  1. ambassador
  2. envoy

classifiers: ,

=2 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)
=2 shì variant of shì
3 为了 wèile for; for the purpose of; in order to
4 本国 běnguó one's own country
=5 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
=5 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=5 really and truly
=5 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
6 利益
  1. benefit
  2. (in sb's) interest

classifier:

=7 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")
=7
  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”)
=7
  1. alternative form of (bǐ, “that”)
  2. alternative form of (bì, “wig”)
=7 alternative form of
=8 used in 派司 si
=8 pài
  1. (literary) tributary; branch of a river
  2. clique; school; group; faction
  3. (bound form) style; manner
  4. to send (a person or resource); to dispatch; to allocate (a resource or task); to appoint (sb)
  5. classifier for factions, groups etc
  6. (preceded by ) classifier used in characterizing a scene, atmosphere, demeanor, sound, remark etc
  7. (loanword) pi (Greek letter Π, π); the circular ratio 𝜋 = 3.14159...
  8. (loanword) pie
9
  1. to go
  2. to go to (a place)
  3. (of a time etc) last
  4. just passed
  5. to send
  6. to remove
  7. to get rid of
  8. to reduce
  9. to be apart from in space or time
  10. to die (euphemism)
  11. to play (a part)
  12. (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth
  13. (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)
  14. (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
10 外国 wàiguó foreign country
11 撒谎 huǎng to tell lies
=12 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
=12 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=12 really and truly
=12 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
13 正直 zhèngzhí
  1. upright
  2. upstanding
  3. honest
=14 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
=14 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=14 really and truly
=14 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
15 rén person; people

classifiers: ,