他們用紅雪松製作了巨大、怪誕卻又美麗的木桿。

They made huge, grotesque, yet beautiful poles of red cedar.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 他們 men they; them
2 yòng
  1. to use; to make use of; to employ
  2. (coverb) with; using
  3. to need; to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions)
  4. usefulness; utility
  5. (bound form) expense; outlay
  6. (courteous) to eat; to drink
  7. (literary) hence; therefore
=3 Hóng surname Hong
=3 gōng used in 女红 nu:gōng
=3 hóng
  1. red
  2. popular
  3. revolutionary
  4. bonus
=3 jiàng
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Substitute character for (jiàng).
  2. Substitute character for (jiàng).
4 雪松 xuěsōng
  1. cedar tree
  2. cedarwood
5 製作 zhìzuò to make; to manufacture
=6 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=6 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)
=6 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=6 liào unofficial variant of liào
7 巨大 huge; immense; enormous; gigantic
8 怪誕 guàidàn
  1. freak
  2. weird
9 què
  1. but
  2. yet
  3. however
  4. while
  5. to go back
  6. to decline
  7. to retreat
  8. nevertheless
  9. even though
10 yòu
  1. (once) again
  2. also
  3. both... and...
  4. and yet
  5. (used for emphasis) anyway
11 美麗 měi beautiful
=12 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 跑堂儿的 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
=12 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=12 really and truly
=12 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
13 木桿 gān
  1. wooden pole
  2. wood (golf club)