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unexpectedly

/uhn-ik-spek-tid/US // ˌʌn ɪkˈspɛk tɪd //UK // (ˌʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd) //

不料,岂料,蓦地里,蓦地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not expected; unforeseen; surprising: an unexpected pleasure;an unexpected development.

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Examples

  • From the meet-cute to the unexpected connection with a total stranger, it’s something I feel born to do.

  • Paul, 35, earned all-NBA second team honors last season by leading the Thunder to an unexpected playoff berth.

  • She knows the pandemic was unexpected and that it’s extremely challenging to deal with.

  • Throughout, Tsamaase explores themes of race, gender and sexuality in unexpected and compelling ways.

  • For even more color, they said in an email, consider having it powder-coated in a rich coral or other unexpected hue.

  • Small rooms off its graffiti-covered foyer provide shelter from the thick rain that can unexpectedly, and vengefully, hit.

  • An elderly machinist finds himself unexpectedly wrapped up in the scandal.

  • Such photos generally blur into the sameness of routine, but this particular one is unexpectedly stirring.

  • As the unexpectedly civil interaction continued, a woman toweled sweat off Johnson's head.

  • Guardians of the Galaxy is a wonderful, funny, and unexpectedly fresh superhero movie.

  • I knew the world had nothing like her, and yet the impression she has made on me, at the first view, is unexpectedly great.

  • The road descended on the other side, and we followed it till we came unexpectedly upon a little circular park.

  • We came upon the buffaloes unexpectedly, and at the first shot Pearson dropped one dead—shot through the heart.

  • He went off whistling, and Isabel raised her hand and looked at it meditatively; his own had been unexpectedly warm and magnetic.

  • Now suddenly, unexpectedly, she knew she had been living in a fool's paradise, into which Nigel had led her.

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