自出心裁zì chū xīn cáimake a new departure;think up an idea of one’s own; write something original
? 那些童生都讀過前人這篇，不能～，每多抄襲。(《紅樓夢》 1102) Those candidates had all read essays on this theme,and instead of writing something original they could only plagiarize. 自出心裁zì chū xīn cái指想出的辦法與眾不同。try to be different, make a new departure |