人為甚麼永遠不會滿足?因為他們總想得到不可能得到的東西。

Why are men never happy? Because they always want the impossible.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 人為 rénwéi
  1. artificial
  2. man-made
  3. having human cause or origin
  4. human attempt or effort
=2 shén variant of shén
=2 shèn
  1. excessive; undue
  2. to exceed; to be more than
  3. very; extremely
  4. (dialect) what; whatever (Taiwan pr. shén)
=3 exclamatory final particle
=3 ma interrogative final particle
=3 me suffix, used to form interrogative 什麼 shénme, what?, indefinite 這麼 zhème thus, etc
=3
  1. tiny
  2. insignificant
4 永遠 yǒngyuǎn
  1. forever
  2. eternal
5 不會 huì
  1. improbable
  2. unlikely
  3. will not (act, happen etc)
  4. not able
  5. not having learned to do sth
  6. (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it
  7. not at all
6 滿足 mǎn
  1. to satisfy
  2. to meet (the needs of)
  3. satisfied
  4. content
7 因為 yīnwèi
  1. because
  2. owing to
  3. on account of
8 他們 men they; them
9 zǒng
  1. (bound form) general; overall
  2. to sum up
  3. in every case; always; invariably
  4. anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later
  5. surely
  6. (after a person's name) abbr. for 總經理 zǒngjīng or 總編 zǒngbiān etc
10 xiǎng
  1. to think (about)
  2. to think of; to devise
  3. to think (that); to believe (that)
  4. to desire; to want (to)
  5. to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)
11 得到 dào to get; to obtain; to receive
12 不可能 néng
  1. impossible
  2. cannot
  3. not able
13 得到 dào to get; to obtain; to receive
=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
=14 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=14 really and truly
=14 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
=15 東西 dōng east and west
=15 東西 dōngxi
  1. thing
  2. stuff
  3. person

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