世界是本书,不旅游的人只看了一页。

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 世界 shìjiè world

classifier:

=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 本书 běnshū
  1. book of genealogy
  2. original book; original work
  3. this book
4
  1. no; not so
  2. (bound form) not; un-
5 旅游 yóu
  1. trip
  2. journey
  3. tourism
  4. travel
  5. tour
  6. to travel
=6 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
=6 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=6 really and truly
=6 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
7 rén person; people

classifiers: ,

=8 zhī variant of zhī
=8 zhǐ only; merely; just
=8 zhǐ variant of zhǐ
=8 zhī grain that has begun to ripen
=8 zhǐ variant of zhǐ
=8 zhī classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
=9 kān
  1. to look after
  2. to take care of
  3. to watch
  4. to guard
=9 kàn
  1. to see; to look at
  2. to read
  3. to watch
  4. to visit; to call on
  5. to consider; to regard as
  6. to look after
  7. to treat (a patient or illness)
  8. to depend on
  9. to feel (that)
  10. (after a verb) to give it a try
  11. to watch out for
=10 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=10 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with or after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as or ) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of liǎo)
=10 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=10 liào unofficial variant of liào
11
  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
=12 xié head
=12
  1. page
  2. leaf