交朋友很容易, 但擺脫他們很難。

It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 交朋友 jiāopéngyou
  1. to make friends
  2. (dialect) to start an affair with sb
2 很 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
3 容易 róngyì
  1. easy; straightforward
  2. likely; liable to; apt to
4 但 dàn
  1. but; yet; however; still
  2. merely; only; just
5 擺脫 bǎituō
  1. to break away from
  2. to cast off (old ideas etc)
  3. to get rid of
  4. to break away (from)
  5. to break out (of)
  6. to free oneself from
  7. to extricate oneself
6 他們 tāmen they; them
7 很 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
=8 難 nán
  1. difficult (to...)
  2. problem
  3. difficulty
  4. difficult
  5. not good
=8 難 nàn
  1. disaster
  2. distress
  3. to scold