林肯總統就是我們所謂白手起家的男人。

President Lincoln was what we call a self-made man.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 林肯 Línkěn
  1. Lincoln (name)
  2. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), US president 1861-1865
  3. Lincoln, US car make
2 總統 zǒngtǒng president (of a country)

classifiers: 個, 位, 名, 屆
3 就是 jiùshì
  1. exactly; precisely
  2. only; simply; just
  3. (used correlatively with 也 yě) even; even if
4 我們 wǒmen we; us; ourselves; our
5 所謂 suǒwèi
  1. what is meant by the expression ...; what is referred to as ...
  2. (derog.) so-called
6 白手起家 báishǒuqǐjiā (idiom) to build up from nothing; to start from scratch
=7 的 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 pígéde "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. dì or di in poetry and songs
=7 的 dī a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 dīshì)
=7 的 dí really and truly
=7 的 dì (bound form) bull's-eye; target
=8 男人 nánrén
  1. a man
  2. a male
  3. men

classifier: 個
=8 男人 nánren
  1. (colloquial) husband
  2. husband