to the untrained eye/earwhen someone who does not have special knowledge of a subject looks at something or listens to it 在外行看来/听起来 To the untrained eye, the two flowers look remarkably similar. 在不懂的人看来，这两种花看上去非常相似。
to the untrained eye/ear• But he knew what he was looking at, though to the untrained eye it was just a pile of minuscule fragments.
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