約翰看起來很勇敢，但其實是個膽小鬼。

John is brave in appearance, but is in reality a coward.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 約翰 Yuēhàn
  1. John (name)
  2. Johan (name)
  3. Johann (name)
=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 勇敢 yǒnggǎn brave; courageous
5 但 dàn
  1. but; yet; however; still
  2. merely; only; just
6 其實 qíshí actually; in fact; really
=7 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)
=7 是 shì variant of 是 shì
=8 個 gě used in 自個兒 zìgěr
=8 個 gè
  1. (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier)
  2. (bound form) individual
9 膽小鬼 dǎnxiǎoguǐ coward