林肯本人是沉默寡言的。

Lincoln himself was silent.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 林肯 Línkěn
  1. Lincoln (name)
  2. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), US president 1861-1865
  3. Lincoln, US car make
2 本人 běnrén
  1. I; me; myself
  2. oneself; yourself; himself; herself; the person concerned
=3 是 shì
  1. to be (followed by substantives only)
  2. correct; right; true
  3. (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
  4. (adverb for emphatic assertion)
=3 是 shì variant of 是 shì
4 沉默寡言 chénmòguǎyán
  1. habitually silent (idiom)
  2. reticent
  3. uncommunicative
=5 的 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 pígéde "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. dì or di in poetry and songs
=5 的 dī a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 dīshì)
=5 的 dí really and truly
=5 的 dì (bound form) bull's-eye; target