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睇起困難但係落去好容易
  ne1 gin6 si6 tai2 hei2 lai4 hou2 kwan3 naan4, daan6 hai5 zou6 lok6 heoi3 hou2 jung4 ji6   jyutping
This task seems quite difficult, but doing it is really easy.

Aspect markers 起嚟 and 落去 function rather like antonyms, originally meaning "starting to" and "carrying on" respectively.
This sentence is in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

  Level: 3
呢件事睇起嚟好困難﹐但係做落去好容易。

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 ni1 ne1 nei1 nei4  ne5 ni2  - final particle; [粵] this
 gin6 gin6*2  jian4  - item; piece; letter
 si6  shi4  - matter; affair; job; work; accident
睇起  tai2 hei2    -  to have a high opinion of someone
 lai4 lei4  li2  - come
 hou2 hou3  hao3 hao4  - good; very; friendly; healthy; ready
困難  kwan3 naan4  kun4 nan5  -  difficult; hard
但係  daan6 hai6  dan4 xi4  -  but; however
 zou6  zuo4  - do, make
落去  lok6 heoi3    -  go down; down; carrying on
好容易  hou2 jung4 ji6  hao3 rong2 yi4  -  with great difficulty (lit., "very easy")
This sentence was added by C Chiu and last edited on 25th Sep 2016 10:34
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