人们在此世中看不到任何获得幸福的希望,便很本能地想在彼世中寻求慰藉。

People could not see any hopes of obtaining happiness in this life, thus they instinctively sought comfort in the afterlife.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 人们 rénmen people
2 在此 zài
  1. hereto
  2. here
=3 Shì surname Shi
=3 shì
  1. life
  2. age
  3. generation
  4. era
  5. world
  6. lifetime
  7. epoch
  8. descendant
  9. noble
4 中看 zhōngkàn
  1. pleasant to the eye
  2. Taiwan pr. zhòngkàn
5 不到 dào
  1. not to arrive
  2. not reaching
  3. insufficient
  4. less than
6 任何 rèn any; whatever; whichever
7 获得 huò to obtain; to receive; to get
8 幸福 xìng
  1. happiness
  2. happy
  3. blessed
=9 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
=9 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=9 really and truly
=9 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
10 希望 wàng to hope

classifier:

=11 便 biàn
  1. plain
  2. informal
  3. suitable
  4. convenient
  5. opportune
  6. to urinate or defecate
  7. equivalent to jiù: then
  8. in that case
  9. even if
  10. soon afterwards
=11 便 pián
  1. used in 便宜 piányi
  2. used in 便便 piánpián
  3. used in 便嬛 piánxuān
12 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
13 本能 běnnéng instinct
=14 de
  1. -ly
  2. structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
=14
  1. earth
  2. ground
  3. field
  4. place
  5. land

classifier:

15 xiǎng
  1. to think (about)
  2. to think of; to devise
  3. to think (that); to believe (that)
  4. to desire; to want (to)
  5. to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)
16 zài
  1. to exist; to be alive
  2. (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
  3. (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
17
  1. that
  2. those
  3. (one) another
=18 Shì surname Shi
=18 shì
  1. life
  2. age
  3. generation
  4. era
  5. world
  6. lifetime
  7. epoch
  8. descendant
  9. noble
=19 Zhōng
  1. (bound form) China; Chinese
  2. surname Zhong
=19 zhōng
  1. within; among; in
  2. middle; center
  3. while (doing sth); during
  4. (dialect) OK; all right
=19 zhòng
  1. to hit (a target)
  2. to be struck by (a bullet, illness etc)
  3. to win (a prize or lottery)
20 寻求 xúnqiú to seek; to look for
21 慰藉 wèijiè to console; to comfort