there's more to somebody/something than meets the eye

BETTERused to say that someone or something is more interesting, intelligent etc than they seem to be 某人/某物比表面所看到的更为有趣[聪明等]

Examples from the Corpus

there’s more to somebody/something than meets the eye• "I didn't know he wrote poetry." "Yes -- he also does painting. There's more to him than meets the eye."• It looks like a simple case of burglary, but there may be more to it than meets the eye.• People think of Bradford as a dull industrial city, but there is more to it than meets the eye.

→ there’s more to somebody/something than meets the eye at meet1(6)

单词	there's more to somebody/something than meets the eye
释义	there's more to somebody/something than meets the eye there's more to somebody/something than meets the eye BETTERused to say that someone or something is more interesting, intelligent etc than they seem to be 某人/某物比表面所看到的更为有趣[聪明等] Examples from the Corpus there’s more to somebody/something than meets the eye• "I didn't know he wrote poetry." "Yes -- he also does painting. There's more to him than meets the eye."• It looks like a simple case of burglary, but there may be more to it than meets the eye.• People think of Bradford as a dull industrial city, but there is more to it than meets the eye. → there’s more to somebody/something than meets the eye at meet1(6)
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