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/sərˈpraɪzɪŋ/ · /səˈpraɪzɪŋ/
Not what you expected, or not usual, so it makes you feel surprised.
令人驚訝的
比較級 more surprising最高級 most surprising
核心畫面
You can picture the thing itself, sitting there not matching what people would normally guess — a result nobody predicted, a price far lower than usual, a quiet person turning out to be the best singer in the room. Surprising points at the event, fact or object that has the power to break someone's expectation, whether or not anyone is actually standing there feeling it.
可以想成:把鏡頭轉到「事情本身」。一個沒人預測到的結果、一個低得離譜的價格、平常最安靜的人結果歌唱得最好——這些東西…更多收起
可以想成:把鏡頭轉到「事情本身」。一個沒人預測到的結果、一個低得離譜的價格、平常最安靜的人結果歌唱得最好——這些東西擺在那裡,本身就和大家會自然猜到的不一樣。surprising 指的是那個有能力打斷別人預期的事物,至於現場有沒有人正在驚訝,是另一回事。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
surprisingadj/səˈpɹaɪzɪŋ/
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Causing surprise.
- A surprising number of people attended the rally.
- With this the second of three games in seven days for Stoke, it was hardly surprising to see nine changes from the side that started against Newcastle in the Premier League on Monday.
surprisingnoun/səˈpɹaɪzɪŋ/
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A situation in which somebody is surprised.
- But the comments of most of these novelists are the record of their continual surprisings by the varieties of moral and aesthetic truths.
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資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。