只凭长相的话很难区分英国人和美国人。

It's hard to tell Englishmen from Americans just by the way they look.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 只 zhī variant of 隻 zhī
=1 只 zhǐ only; merely; just
=1 只 zhǐ variant of 只 zhǐ
=1 只 zhī grain that has begun to ripen
=1 只 zhǐ variant of 只 zhǐ
=1 只 zhī classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
=2 凭 píng variant of 憑 píng
=2 凭 píng
  1. to lean against
  2. to rely on
  3. on the basis of
  4. no matter (how, what etc)
  5. proof
=3 长相 zhǎngxiàng
  1. appearance
  2. looks
  3. profile
  4. countenance
=3 长相 chángxiāng
  1. (used in some phrases) at/to/with/… each other for long
  2. at/to/with/… each other for long
4 的话 dehuà if (coming after a conditional clause)
5 很 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
=6 难 nán
  1. difficult (to...)
  2. problem
  3. difficulty
  4. difficult
  5. not good
=6 难 nàn
  1. disaster
  2. distress
  3. to scold
7 区分 qūfēn
  1. to differentiate
  2. to draw a distinction
  3. to divide into categories
=8 英国人 Yīngguórén British person; British people
=8 英国人 yīngguórén British person; Briton; British people
=9 和美 Héměi Hemei or Homei Town in Changhua County 彰化縣 Zhānghuà Xiàn, Taiwan
=9 和美 héměi
  1. harmonious
  2. in perfect harmony
10 国人 guórén
  1. compatriots (literary)
  2. fellow countrymen