How surprising it is that people used to so stiffly understand an object before any observation.

如此顽固地提前理解所观察的事物，真是令人惊讶。

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But I think what I really want to point out about his vote is not just how surprising it is, but that it is a very big deal.

但是我想自己真的需要指出的是关于他的投票不仅仅是多么令人惊讶，而且这是一笔非常大的交易。

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Looking at these maps, though, you can imagine how surprising that conclusion might have been to many residents of Mexico, the United States, central Canada, Sweden, or northern Russia.

看到这几张气温图，你可以想像这个结论对墨西哥，美国，加拿大中部，瑞典，还有俄罗斯北部的许多居民来说有多不可思议。

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Yet she told VOA's Faiza Elmasry it was surprising how many students can graduate with, in her words,a "thin education."

VOA: special.2009.10.22

Can you give us a few examples of places where this is banged in conflict and perhaps how your own thinking, in discussing this, may have involved, expanded, taken surprising directions?

能不能给我们举一些,这些不同点之间发生冲突的例子,或者说你在思考这些时，你的想法，是如何不断充实又变得新奇的呢？

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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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How surprising then in this 21st Century, when sexual equality is a legally enforceable rule in most walks of our national life, to find that when it comes to the rules of succession to the British throne, women are the victims of the most blatant discrimination.

BBC: Why the monarchy discriminates

Rather than simply rejecting the creation myth on rationalist grounds, he finds in it symbols and metaphors which reveal how much surprising continuity there has been in human thinking about our origins.

ECONOMIST: Canons of conflict

Considering how many people meander around its displays, it is surprising how few objects are damaged.

BBC: London