拉斐爾萊唐表示，在巴西，職業棋手很難獲得贊助，因為西洋棋在巴西並不流行。

According to Rafael Leitão, it is very difficult for a professional chess player to get sponsorship in Brazil, because chess is not popular in our country.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 拉斐爾 Lāfěiěr Raphael
=1 拉斐爾 Lāfěi'ěr Raphael
2 萊 lái
  1. name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc)
  2. Chenopodium album
=3 唐 Táng
  1. Tang dynasty (618–907)
  2. surname Tang
=3 唐 táng
  1. to exaggerate
  2. empty
  3. in vain
  4. old variant of 螗 táng
4 表示 biǎoshì
  1. (of sb) to express; to state; to show
  2. (of sth) to indicate; to signify; to show
  3. expression; manifestation
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 巴西 Bāxī Brazil
7 職業 zhíyè
  1. occupation; profession; vocation
  2. professional
8 棋手 qíshǒu chess player
9 很 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
=10 難 nán
  1. difficult (to...)
  2. problem
  3. difficulty
  4. difficult
  5. not good
=10 難 nàn
  1. disaster
  2. distress
  3. to scold
11 獲得 huòdé to obtain; to receive; to get
12 贊助 zànzhù
  1. to support
  2. to assist
  3. to sponsor
13 因為 yīnwèi
  1. because
  2. owing to
  3. on account of
14 西洋棋 xīyángqí chess
15 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)
16 巴西 Bāxī Brazil
17 並不 bìngbù not at all; by no means
18 流行 liúxíng
  1. (of a contagious disease etc) to spread
  2. to propagate
  3. (of a style of clothing, song etc) popular
  4. fashionable