谣传一架宇宙飞船在上海附近被见到了。

It is rumoured that a spaceship has been seen near Shanghai.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 谣传 yáochuán rumor
2 一 yī
  1. one
  2. single
  3. a (article)
  4. as soon as
  5. entire; whole; all; throughout
  6. "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
  7. also pr. yāo for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
3 架 jià
  1. to support
  2. frame
  3. rack
  4. framework
  5. classifier for planes, large vehicles, radios etc
4 宇宙飞船 yǔzhòufēichuán spaceship; spacecraft
5 在 zài
  1. to exist; to be alive
  2. (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
  3. (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
6 上海 Shànghǎi Shanghai municipality (abbr. to 沪 Hù)
7 附近 fùjìn
  1. nearby; neighboring
  2. (in the) vicinity (of); neighborhood
=8 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 被旅游 bèilu:yóu to "go on a trip")
=8 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”)
=8 被 bì
  1. alternative form of 彼 (bǐ, “that”)
  2. alternative form of 髲 (bì, “wig”)
=8 被 pì alternative form of 帔
9 见到 jiàndào to see
=10 了 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=10 了 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with 得 dé or 不 bù after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 无 wú or 不 bù) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of 了 liǎo)
=10 了 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=10 了 liào unofficial variant of 瞭 liào