她看起来是年轻的,但实际上她四十多岁了。

She looks young, but she's actually over forty.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 she
=2 看起来 kànlai seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be
=2 看起来 kànqilai
  1. to look and perceive
  2. to seem; to look as if
=3 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)
=3 shì variant of shì
4 年轻 niánqīng young
=5 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 跑堂兒的 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
=5 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=5 really and truly
=5 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
6 dàn
  1. but; yet; however; still
  2. merely; only; just
7 实际上 shíshàng
  1. in fact
  2. in reality
  3. as a matter of fact
  4. in practice
8 she
9 四十 shí
  1. forty
  2. 40
10 duō
  1. many; much; more; a lot of
  2. too many; in excess
  3. (after a numeral) ... odd
  4. how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. duó)
  5. (bound form) multi-; poly-
=11 suì
  1. variant of suì, year
  2. years old
=11 suì
  1. classifier for years (of age)
  2. year
  3. year (of crop harvests)
=12 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=12 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with or after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as or ) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of liǎo)
=12 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=12 liào unofficial variant of liào