那些葡萄看起來很甜,但其實是酸的。

Those grapes look sweet, but in fact they're sour.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 那些 xiē those
=2 葡萄 tao grape
=2 葡萄 táo
  1. (~) Putao District (in Myanmar)
  2. (~) Putao Township (in Myanmar)
  3. Putao (a town in Myanmar)
  4. Putao District (in Myanmar)
  5. Putao Township (in Myanmar)
  6. grape (Classifier: m; m; ; c; mn)
=3 看起來 kànlai seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be
=3 看起來 kànqilai
  1. to look and perceive
  2. to seem; to look as if
4 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
5 tián sweet
6 dàn
  1. but; yet; however; still
  2. merely; only; just
7 其實 shí actually; in fact; really
=8 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)
=8 shì variant of shì
9 suān
  1. sour
  2. tart
  3. sick at heart
  4. grieved
  5. sore
  6. aching
  7. pedantic
  8. impractical
  9. to make sarcastic remarks about sb
  10. an acid
=10 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 跑堂儿的 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
=10 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=10 really and truly
=10 (bound form) bull's-eye; target