Interlingua is an international auxiliary language developed between 1937 and 1951 by the IALA (International Auxiliary Language Association). Its vocabulary and grammar is chiefly derived from five control languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian.
Examples (Wiktionary)
Mandarin
理性的东西所以靠得住,正是由于它来源于感性,否则理性的东西就成了无源之水,无本之木,而只是主观自生的靠不住的东西了。
理性的東西所以靠得住,正是由於它來源於感性,否則理性的東西就成了無源之水,無本之木,而只是主觀自生的靠不住的東西了。
lǐ xìng de dōng xi suǒ yǐ kào de zhù , zhèng shì yóu yú tā lái yuán yú gǎn xìng , fǒu zé lǐ xìng de dōng xi jiù chéng le wú yuán zhī shuǐ , wú běn zhī mù , ér zhǐ shì zhǔ guān zì shēng de kào bu zhù de dōng xi le .
The rational is reliable precisely because it has its source in sense perceptions, other wise it would be like water without a source, a tree without roots, subjective, self-engendered and unreliable.