生命中你无法选择接踵而至的挑战,但是你可以选择不成为一个失败者。

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 生命 shēngmìng life (as the characteristic of living beings)

classifiers: ,

=2 Zhōng
  1. (bound form) China; Chinese
  2. surname Zhong
=2 zhōng
  1. within; among; in
  2. middle; center
  3. while (doing sth); during
  4. (dialect) OK; all right
=2 zhòng
  1. to hit (a target)
  2. to be struck by (a bullet, illness etc)
  3. to win (a prize or lottery)
=3 you (informal, as opposed to courteous nín)
=3 you (Note: In Taiwan, is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, is used to address both males and females.)
4 无法 unable to; incapable of
5 选择 xuǎn
  1. to select; to pick
  2. choice; option; alternative
6 接踵而至 jiēzhǒng'érzhì to follow each other and arrive successively; to be unceasing
=7 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
=7 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=7 really and truly
=7 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
8 挑战 tiǎozhàn
  1. to challenge
  2. challenge
9 但是 dànshì but; however
=10 you (informal, as opposed to courteous nín)
=10 you (Note: In Taiwan, is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, is used to address both males and females.)
11 可以
  1. can
  2. may
  3. possible
  4. able to
  5. not bad
  6. pretty good
12 选择 xuǎn
  1. to select; to pick
  2. choice; option; alternative
13 不成 chéng
  1. won't do
  2. unable to
  3. (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be?
=14 wéi
  1. as (in the capacity of)
  2. to take sth as
  3. to act as
  4. to serve as
  5. to behave as
  6. to become
  7. to be
  8. to do
  9. by (in the passive voice)
=14 wèi
  1. because of
  2. for
  3. to
=14 wéi variant of wéi
=14 wèi variant of wèi
=15 一个 ge
  1. a; an; one
  2. the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
=15 一个
  1. Combination of the numeral (“one”) and the generic classifier : a; an; one
  2. same
16 失败者 shībàizhě loser