A surprising thing for the man who runs one of the world's most powerful economies to say?

对于执掌全球最强大经济体之一的人来说，这样说很令人惊讶吗？

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It is a surprising thing to have completed your college course. Please accept my sincere congratulations.

你读完了大学课程令人欣喜。请接受我对你的真诚祝贺。

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Love is a wonderful and surprising thing and, as we tell people who ask how we met, we just kind of bumped and stuck.

爱情是一种美妙而令人惊奇的事情，对那些问我们是怎样认识的人，我们是这样告诉他们的：我们的相识就是碰上就无法分开的那种。

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I know that may seem like a surprising thing to say when I've just sort of gone on my little gleeful amount about how I'm going to fail all of you, but it's worth my saying you guys are so smart.

我知道这说起来很奇怪,当我有些幸灾乐祸的说,关于我怎么让你们全部不合格，但是这值得我说你们聪明非常。

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And then the most surprising thing of all was a study done not long ago, published in 1997 of registered dieticians.

不久前的实验中,让人惊奇的事发生了,在1997年由注册营养学家发表

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And believe it or not, which is a very surprising thing, medical experts are now warning that for the first time in the history of this nation, we're headed for the next generation being on track to have a shorter life span than us.

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That its latest expansion runs with this is hardly surprising or necessarily a bad thing.

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But the emails do reveal one surprising thing: Weiner has a honest side.

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