create new styles; have an out-of the-ordinary (/origi nal/unconventional) idea; have new ideas of one’s own; in an original manner; inventive; original in its design; out of one’s own head; show originality;use one’s ingenuity
? 他寫這部小說是～的。He wrote the novel out of his own head.
獨出心裁dú chū xīn cái
心裁：指心中的設(shè)計籌劃等。原指詩文的構(gòu)思有獨到的地方。現(xiàn)多指想出的辦法與眾不同。be original, show originality, create new styles, have new ideas of one’s own, out of one’s own hand