To be beyond people's expectations; to be unexpected or surprising.
他的最新作品在风格上有所突破，细节处理出人意表，赢得了广泛赞誉。
His latest work achieved a breakthrough in style, with unexpected details, earning widespread acclaim.
Era:
Ancient
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During the Southern Chen Dynasty, Yuan Xian was intelligent and very fond of learning from a young age.
At the age of 14, he was summoned to serve as Guozijian Zhengyansheng (an official in the imperial academy) and became a frank and outspoken minister to Emperor Chen Shubao.
He often invited insightful scholars to his home for discussions, frequently proposing new and unexpected insights that were accurate and profound. This earned him people's trust, who believed he was not a slave to books, but rather their master.
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