天才们有一个重要的缺点: 他们不会输。

Brilliant people have one major drawback - they don't know how to lose.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 天才 tiāncái
  1. talent
  2. gift
  3. genius
  4. talented
  5. gifted
2 men plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals
=3 yǒu
  1. to have; there is
  2. (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意 yǒu intentional)
=3 yòu
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (yòu, “again”)
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (yòu, “and; with a remainder of (when dividing an integer by ten)”)
  3. alternative form of (yòu, “again”)
  4. alternative form of (yòu, “and; with a remainder of (when dividing an integer by ten)”)
=4 一个 ge
  1. a; an; one
  2. the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
=4 一个
  1. Combination of the numeral (“one”) and the generic classifier : a; an; one
  2. same
5 重要 zhòngyào important; significant; major
=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 缺点 quēdiǎn
  1. weak point
  2. fault
  3. shortcoming
  4. disadvantage

classifier:

8 他们 men they; them
9 不会 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
10 shū
  1. to lose; to be beaten
  2. (bound form) to transport
  3. (literary) to donate; to contribute
  4. (coll.) to enter (a password)