The mosquitoes were unlikely to survive a Dutch winter: the surprise was that tropical insects could flourish in a North Sea summer.

蚊子不可能在荷兰过冬：令人吃惊的是，热带昆虫能够在北海的夏天兴旺起来。

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Although winter comes as no surprise, many of us are not ready for its arrival.

虽然冬天的到来无需惊讶，但是大多数人还没有为它的来临做好准备。

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In the winter they buy a digital camera as a surprise for the grandchildren, but they don't know how to connect it to the computer they bought a year before.

那年冬天，他们买了一个数码相机，准备给孙子们一个惊喜，可他们不知道如何把它链接到那台一年前买的电脑上。

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Speaking of warm weather, some of the countries sending athletes to the Winter Games might surprise you.

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This shift, coupled with seasonal variation, might make for a confusing winter for users of weather.com, with more surprise raindrops or snowfalls than usual.

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Then my father went on a winter holiday to Cuba (my mother remarked on this with some surprise and maybe approval) and came back with a lingering sort of flu that caused the visits to lapse.

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There, however, the clarity pretty much ends, and not just because Mr Brown will surely spring a populist surprise or two (remember the extra cash for hospitals and schools in July, or the pensioners' winter warmer in November?).

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