1.It was a very strange and surprising thing to say and I'm sure some people would have been offended. ''
这听起来非常奇怪，让人难以接受，我想肯定有人会感觉到自己被冒犯。
2.In a country where there seems to be a plan for everything, the surprising thing about Pudong is the lack of joined-up planning.
在一个似乎事事有规划的国家里，浦东令人惊讶地缺乏整体规划。
3.And the surprising thing was that the list was very similar -- with malnutrition and diseases at the top and climate change at the bottom.
令人惊奇的是，他们订出来的清单都很相似，为首的总是营养不良和疾病，而气候变化总是在清单的最后。
4.Natives carried much of the hunting out, a surprising thing since they considered the tiger a reincarnation of their dead relatives.
令人惊奇的是，当地居民搜寻出了大量的爪哇虎，因为他们认为爪哇虎是他们已故亲人的化身。
5.The most surprising thing was that the grass had miraculously taken root in the blackened soil after a spring rain.
最让人惊讶的是一场春雨过后，小草奇迹般地从烧焦的土地里冒了出来。
6.The most surprising thing of all, though, is that these results have emerged from an unrelated study of the quality of men's sperm.
最雷人的，是所有这些结论所依据的都是另一项与此无关的、对男人精子质量的研究。
7.Indeed, the surprising thing about Occupy Wall Street isn't that it's happening -- it's that it took three years for it to happen.
事实上，对“占领华尔街”这一运动来说，最让人意外的不是它的发生——而是它的发生竟用了三年。
8.The surprising thing is that society smiles so kindly on the motorist and seems to forgive his for his behavior.
令人吃惊的是，社会竟对开车者笑脸相迎，悦目以待，对其行为似乎网开一面。
9.The surprising thing about computers is not that they think less well than a man, but they think at all.
电子计算机令人惊奇的并不在于它思维比人差，而是它竟然能够思维。
10.What was the most surprising thing you learned about the middle-aged brain?
对于中年人大脑的研究，有什么是最让你感到惊奇的？