| 单词 | the surprise of one's life |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe surprise of one's life(time) b. The feeling or mental state, akin to astonishment and wonder, caused by an unexpected occurrence or circumstance. Also, in the surprise of one's life(time); cf. life n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > [noun] > feeling of surprise startc1330 sit-up1483 glopa1500 stonishment1594 startle1603 surprisal1652 surprise1686 shock1705 turn1845 jolt1884 1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 20 The Vizier, faigning a kind of surprise, And what, said he, Are those Gentlemen still here? 1743 R. Pococke Descr. East I. ii. v. 122 We went on to the north, the Nile running through the rocks... I ask'd them when we should come to the cataract, and to my great surprize they told me, that was the cataract. a1763 W. Shenstone Ess. in Wks. (1765) II. 214 Surprise quickens enjoyment, and expectation banishes surprise. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. x. 275 Lord Dalgarno expressed much surprise at understanding that Nigel proposed an instant return to Scotland. 1908 G. K. Chesterton Orthodoxy (1909) iii. 52 By asking for pleasure, he lost the chief pleasure; for the chief pleasure is surprise. < as lemmas |
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