An understandable response to being caught off guard, perhaps - but the fact is that the possibility of hijacked airliners crashing into buildings was neither unimaginable nor unimagined.

或许措手不及一说可以理解，但事实上被劫持客机撞毁建筑物的可能性既不是难以想象，也不是无法想象。

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This dinosaur was probably buried alive in a landslide that caught it off guard.

这只恐龙可能是在不注意时被山崩活埋。

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This caught me off guard, but I was getting pretty bored with the last project, so maybe it's for the best.

可能是大意了，但我容忍这最后的项目，也许这是出于好意。

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Yet even he was caught off guard by the intensity of the effort marshalled against him.

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