但很快一个晴天霹雳让他震惊。

But soon a bolt from the blue shocked him.

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让他震惊的是，那里空无一物。

To his consternation, he saw no one.

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那里的学校让他震惊：“泥地板，破窗户，无电灯。”

He was shocked by the schools. "There were dirt floors and broken Windows and no electricity."

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But when he finally gets ill and comes up to the fact of his mortality, that his body is going to sicken and eventually die, the fact of his mortality seems to shock him, seems to surprise him.

但他最终病倒，和死亡面对面，身体每况愈下，最终死亡，这个事实让他震惊不已，他非常惊讶。

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