老人看起來很傷心。

The old man looks sad.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 老人 lǎorén
  1. old man or woman
  2. the elderly
  3. one's aged parents or grandparents
=2 看起來 kànqǐlai seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be
=2 看起來 kànqilai
  1. to look and perceive
  2. to seem; to look as if
3 很 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
4 傷心 shāngxīn
  1. to grieve
  2. to be broken-hearted
  3. to feel deeply hurt