是史密斯先生教我使用那台机器的。

It was Mr. Smith that taught me how to use that machine.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 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)
=1 shì variant of shì
2 史密斯 Shǐ Smith (name)
=3 先生 xiānsheng
  1. teacher
  2. gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.)
  3. husband
  4. (dialect) doctor

classifier:

=3 先生 xiānshēng
  1. (dialectal) traditional Chinese medicine physician
  2. (literal, Classical) one who was born earlier
  3. (literary) Taoist priest
  4. (literary) ancestor
  5. (literary) father and elder brother
  6. An honorific for adults, usually conferred on males: mister; sir; gentleman
  7. Taoist priest
  8. ancestor
  9. father and elder brother
  10. husband
  11. one who was born earlier
  12. traditional Chinese medicine physician
=4 Jiào surname Jiao
=4 jiāo to teach; to instruct
=4 jiào
  1. (bound form) to teach; to instruct
  2. a religion
  3. to cause (sb to do sth); to tell (sb to do sth)
5
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
6 使用 shǐyòng
  1. to use
  2. to employ
  3. to apply
  4. to make use of
=7 surname Na
=7 Nuó surname Nuo
=7 variant of
=7
  1. (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. nèi)
  2. (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations)
  3. then (in that case)
=7 nuó
  1. (archaic) many
  2. beautiful
  3. how
  4. old variant of nuó
=8 Tái
  1. Taiwan (abbr.)
  2. surname Tai
=8 tāi used in place names
=8 tái
  1. (classical) you (in letters)
  2. variant of tái
=8 tái desk; table; counter
=8 Tái Taiwan (abbr.)
=8 tái
  1. platform
  2. stage
  3. terrace
  4. stand
  5. support
  6. station
  7. broadcasting station
  8. classifier for vehicles or machines
=8 tái typhoon
=8
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) I, me
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Original form of (yí, “happy, pleased”).
  3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) what
  4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, polite, honorific) used to address another person or to describe the actions of another person
  5. I, me
  6. Original form of (yí, “happy, pleased”).
  7. Used in place names.
  8. a surname
  9. historical placename in modern Shandong
  10. used in 三台 (“name of a star”)
  11. used to address another person or to describe the actions of another person
  12. what
=8 pufferfish; blowfish
9 机器 machine

classifiers: , ,

=10 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 跑堂兒的 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
=10 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=10 really and truly
=10 (bound form) bull's-eye; target