He was supposed to die before my mother, but life is full of little surprises.

他应该在我妈妈去世前就该死去，但生活充满了小小的意外惊喜。

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What mostly surprises people is my confidence that anyone can reach a high level of fluency in a language in just a few months.

我认为任何人都有可能在短短几个月内精通一门语言，人们通常会惊讶于我为何如此自信。

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WhoI work for doesn’t like surprises, so part of my job is telling my employersahead of time if tonight they’ll be asked to eat something difficult like alobster or an artichoke.

我的雇主不喜欢惊喜，所以我的工作之一是提前通知他们，如果今晚他们会吃到类似龙虾或是洋蓟之类难以下咽的东西的话。

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"One of my first surprises was finding out that horses have passports with photos, " he says.

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"As a person who has spent many years surprising people this is one of my greatest surprises - this time it's on me, " he said in a break from performing the panto Aladdin in Bournemouth.

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Everything in my life surprises me.

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