約翰的母親看起來很年輕,別人不細看倒以為她是約翰的姐姐。

John's mother looks so young that she is often mistaken for his elder sister.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 約翰 Yuēhàn
  1. John (name)
  2. Johan (name)
  3. Johann (name)
=2 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
=2 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=2 really and truly
=2 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
3 母親 qīn
  1. mother
  2. also pr. qin

classifier:

=4 看起來 kànlai seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be
=4 看起來 kànqilai
  1. to look and perceive
  2. to seem; to look as if
5 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
6 年輕 niánqīng young
=7 別人 biéren other people; others; other person
=7 別人 biérén others; other people
8
  1. no; not so
  2. (bound form) not; un-
9 細看 kàn
  1. to peer
  2. to scan
  3. to examine carefully
=10 dǎo
  1. to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally
  2. to fail; to go bankrupt
  3. to overthrow
  4. to change (trains or buses)
  5. to move around
  6. to resell at a profit
=10 dào
  1. to invert; to place upside down or frontside back
  2. to pour out
  3. to tip out; to dump
  4. inverted; upside down; reversed
  5. to go backward
  6. contrary to what one might expect; but; yet
11 以為 wéi to think; to believe (often with the implication that the belief is mistaken – unless referring to one's own current belief)
12 she
=13 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)
=13 shì variant of shì
14 約翰 Yuēhàn
  1. John (name)
  2. Johan (name)
  3. Johann (name)
15 的姐 jiě female taxi driver
16 jiě older sister