英语词汇you can’t judge a book by its cover的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

you can’t judge a book by its cover. An early 1900s Ameri- can saying meaning “not to judge things from surface appear- ances.” In writing a review of Stephen King’s Everything’s Even- tual: 14 Dark Tales (2002), New York Times critic Janet Maslin praised the jacket illustration by artist Mark Stutzman and turned the old saying around: “. . . a tranquil restaurant scene on the front cover with just a wee trace of blood in one water glass. But turn to the back, and all hell has broken loose. You can tell the book by its cover.”

词汇	you can’t judge a book by its cover
词源	you can’t judge a book by its cover. An early 1900s Ameri- can saying meaning “not to judge things from surface appear- ances.” In writing a review of Stephen King’s Everything’s Even- tual: 14 Dark Tales (2002), New York Times critic Janet Maslin praised the jacket illustration by artist Mark Stutzman and turned the old saying around: “. . . a tranquil restaurant scene on the front cover with just a wee trace of blood in one water glass. But turn to the back, and all hell has broken loose. You can tell the book by its cover.”
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