六个人投了这份工作,但他们中没有一个被录用。

Six people applied for the job, but none of them were employed.

Six people applied for this job, but none of them was accepted.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 liù
  1. six
  2. 6
=1 used in place names
2 个人 rén
  1. individual
  2. personal
  3. oneself
3 tóu
  1. to throw (sth in a specific direction: ball, javelin, grenade etc)
  2. to cast (a ballot)
  3. to cast (a glance, a shadow etc)
  4. to put in (money for investment, a coin to operate a slot machine)
  5. to send (a letter, a manuscript etc)
  6. to throw oneself into (a river, a well etc to commit suicide)
  7. to go to; to seek refuge; to place oneself into the hands of
  8. (coll.) to rinse (clothes) in water
=4 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=4 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)
=4 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=4 liào unofficial variant of liào
=5 zhè
  1. (pronoun) this; these
  2. (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun)
  3. (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. zhèi, esp. in Beijing)
=5 zhèi (coll.) this
6 fèn
  1. classifier for gifts, newspaper, magazine, papers, reports, contracts etc
  2. variant of fèn
7 工作 gōngzuò
  1. to work
  2. (of a machine) to operate
  3. job
  4. work
  5. task

classifiers: , ,

8 dàn
  1. but; yet; however; still
  2. merely; only; just
9 他们 men they; them
=10 Zhōng
  1. (bound form) China; Chinese
  2. surname Zhong
=10 zhōng
  1. within; among; in
  2. middle; center
  3. while (doing sth); during
  4. (dialect) OK; all right
=10 zhòng
  1. to hit (a target)
  2. to be struck by (a bullet, illness etc)
  3. to win (a prize or lottery)
11 没有 méiyǒu
  1. haven't
  2. hasn't
  3. doesn't exist
  4. to not have
  5. to not be
=12 一个 ge
  1. a; an; one
  2. the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
=12 一个
  1. Combination of the numeral (“one”) and the generic classifier : a; an; one
  2. same
=13 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 被旅遊 bèilu:yóu to "go on a trip")
=13
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
  2. alternative form of (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
=13
  1. alternative form of (bǐ, “that”)
  2. alternative form of (bì, “wig”)
=13 alternative form of
14 录用 yòng
  1. to hire (an employee)
  2. to accept (a manuscript) for publication