"we think he's stronger than he is"

[Xiao Kui]

I want to know how i can say this

"we think he's stronger than he is" in Chinese

The adjective doesn' matter it can be smarter, harsher, etc. What i want to emphasize is that though he very well may be __________, he is not nearly as _________ as we think he is. Thanks!

EDIT: Now I think I got it, my break from Chinese was too long.

他没有我们想的那么聪明。

Or would it be 想得？

Edited November 5, 2008 at 05:30 AM by Xiao Kui

[ImBmen]

Hi,do you mean he is stronger than we thought he was?in that case you can say 他比我们想的要强（ta bi wo men xiang de yao qiang)

[liu101842]

我们觉得他比他要强壮一些。

[Hanlink]

The English in this sentence is very odd. Surely, the logical conclusion to your full sentence is: "... he is not nearly as ________ as he thinks he is", which translates easily into:

他[根本]沒有他想的那麼+ adj. or variants of this kind of a sentence.

[Hanlink]

The problem is with the English. Your Chinese translated back into English for 他没有我们想的那么聪明 (and 的 is correct here) means "He wasn't as clever as we thought". This is not the same meaning as your original sentence, which as I said did not make too much logical sense anyway.

[emma陶藝心]

I'm a girl from Shanghai,China.I'd like to help u.

If u wanna emphasize that "he is not nearly as _________ as we think he is",u can just say :他裝腔作勢 It doesn't emphasize he's not really"smart","strong"or"nice",It just mean he's pretending to be what he wants to be,but actually he isn't...

我是来自中国上海的女孩。我愿意帮助你。

如果你想强调“他不是像我们想的那样的＋（形容词）”，你可以这么说：“他装腔作势”

这不强调后面的形容词是“聪明”，“强壮”或是“人好”，这只强调“他装作他想成为的样子，但他其实并不是那样的。”

and...this translation"我们觉得他比他要强壮一些。"is totally wrong.

[anonymoose]

"we think he's stronger than he is"

I concur that this English sentence is somewhat strange, but nevertheless, translated into Chinese, it should be something like:

我们认为他比他的(真实)能力要强。

I've added 真实 into the sentence in an effort to make it clearer, but still, as they say, garbage in, garbage out.

[HashiriKata]

"we think he's stronger than he is"

I think I've got what Xiao Kui is about. S/he's just put "we think" at a wrong place in the sentence. What s/he intended to say may be:

"he's stronger than we think he is".

Then the translation should be:

他比我们想的要强

and "he's not nearly as strong as we think he is" should then be:

他并没有我们想的那么强。

Edited November 5, 2008 at 04:53 PM by HashiriKata

[emma陶藝心]

Quote:

"we think he's stronger than he is"

I think I've got what Xiao Kui is about. S/he's just put "we think" at a wrong place in the sentence. What s/he intended to say may be:

"he's stronger than we think he is".

Then the translation should be:

他比我们想的要聪明

and "he's not nearly as strong as we think he is" should then be:

他并没有我们想的那么聪明。

I think ur right~

[heifeng]

my short (5 second & very koutouyu) cookie cutter answer (or attempt at one), based on this

The adjective doesn' matter it can be smarter, harsher, etc. What i want to emphasize is that though he very well may be __________, he is not nearly as _________ as we think he is. Thanks!

(XX是XX , 但是)YYY(并)没有我们（起初/曾经/other time frame）想象的那么XX(or subsitute XXX with another adj 厉害，牛,差, or whatever, depending on what XX is)

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edit:

orrrrr，a kinda related format

尽管xxx很yyy但是并不如(远不如）我们所想象的 (那么zzz)

Edited November 6, 2008 at 01:34 AM by heifeng