although; even though (often used correlatively with 可是 kě shì or 但是 dàn shì etc)

Luciano might have the crowd behind him, but he's still wet behind the ears.

Though I may be in the jaws of death, I am as a firm as a rock.

And all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.

Although he did well in the exam, his spoken Chinese is not necessarily as good as yours.

I don't want to lose my ideas, even though some of them are a bit extreme.