人們很容易將能源和電力小組委員會的大多數成員描述為笨蛋。他們散佈石油和煤炭公司炮製的虛假信息,以最大限度地減少全球氣候變遷的重要性,被稱為科學文盲。

One can easily characterize a majority of the energy and power subcommittee members as nincompoops — scientific illiterates who spread misinformation crafted by oil and coal companies in order to minimize the significance of global climate change.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 人們 rénmen people
2 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
3 容易 róng
  1. easy; straightforward
  2. likely; liable to; apt to
=4 jiāng
  1. will
  2. shall
  3. to use
  4. to take
  5. to checkmate
  6. just a short while ago
  7. (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as )
=4 jiàng
  1. (bound form) a general
  2. (literary) to command; to lead
  3. (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)
=4 qiāng
  1. to desire
  2. to invite
  3. to request
5 能源 néngyuán energy sources; energy
=6 old variant of
=6 surname He
=6
  1. (joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. hàn)
  2. (math.) sum
  3. to make peace
  4. (sports) to draw; to tie
  5. (bound form) harmonious
  6. (bound form) Japan; Japanese
=6
  1. to compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence
  2. to join in the singing
  3. to chime in with others
=6 to complete a set in mahjong or playing cards
=6 huó
  1. to combine a powdery substance (flour, plaster etc) with water
  2. Taiwan pr. huò
=6 huò
  1. to mix (ingredients) together
  2. to blend
  3. classifier for rinses of clothes
  4. classifier for boilings of medicinal herbs
=6 (literary) harmonious (variant of )
=6 huo
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) warm
  2. warm
7 電力 diàn
  1. electrical power
  2. electricity
8 小組委員會 xiǎowěiyuánhuì subcommittee
=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 大多數 duōshù (great) majority
11 成員 chéngyuán member
12 描述 miáoshù
  1. to describe
  2. description
=13 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)
=13 wèi
  1. because of
  2. for
  3. to
14 笨蛋 bèndàn
  1. (mild insult) fool; idiot
  2. (playful) silly person
15 他們 men they; them
16 散佈 sàn to disseminate
17 石油 shíyóu
  1. oil
  2. petroleum
=18 old variant of
=18 surname He
=18
  1. (joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. hàn)
  2. (math.) sum
  3. to make peace
  4. (sports) to draw; to tie
  5. (bound form) harmonious
  6. (bound form) Japan; Japanese
=18
  1. to compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence
  2. to join in the singing
  3. to chime in with others
=18 to complete a set in mahjong or playing cards
=18 huó
  1. to combine a powdery substance (flour, plaster etc) with water
  2. Taiwan pr. huò
=18 huò
  1. to mix (ingredients) together
  2. to blend
  3. classifier for rinses of clothes
  4. classifier for boilings of medicinal herbs
=18 (literary) harmonious (variant of )
=18 huo
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) warm
  2. warm
19 煤炭 méitàn coal
20 公司 gōng company; firm; corporation

classifier:

21 炮製 páozhì
  1. to concoct
  2. to invent
  3. to fabricate
  4. to produce
  5. to process
  6. processing and curing (Chinese medicine)
=22 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
=22 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=22 really and truly
=22 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
23 虛假 jiǎ false; phony; sham
24 信息 xìn
  1. information
  2. news
  3. message
=25 old variant of
=25 old variant of
=25 abbr. for Israel 以色列 liè
=25
  1. to use
  2. by means of
  3. according to
  4. in order to
  5. because of
  6. at (a certain date or place)
26 最大 zuì largest; biggest; greatest; maximum; maximal
27 限度 xiàn
  1. limitation
  2. limit
=28 de
  1. -ly
  2. structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
=28
  1. earth
  2. ground
  3. field
  4. place
  5. land

classifier:

29 減少 jiǎnshǎo to lessen; to decrease; to reduce; to lower
30 全球氣候 quánqiúhòu global climate
31 變遷 biànqiān
  1. changes
  2. vicissitudes
=32 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
=32 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=32 really and truly
=32 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
33 重要性 zhòngyàoxìng importance
=34 bèi
  1. quilt
  2. to cover (with)
  3. (literary) to suffer (a misfortune)
  4. used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb)
  5. (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅遊 bèilu:yóu to "go on a trip")
=34
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
  2. alternative form of (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
=34
  1. alternative form of (bǐ, “that”)
  2. alternative form of (bì, “wig”)
=34 alternative form of
35 稱為 chēngwéi to be called; to be known as; to call it "..."
36 科學 xué
  1. science
  2. scientific knowledge
  3. scientific
  4. rational

classifiers: , ,

37 文盲 wénmáng illiterate