in a way that causes surprise 令人吃驚的;使人驚奇的;出人意料的;奇怪的 She looked surprisingly well. 她看上去身體出奇地好。 Surprisingly, he agreed straight away. 真想不到,他馬上同意了。 Not surprisingly on such a hot day, the beach was crowded. 在這樣的大熱天,海灘上人頭攢動是不足爲奇的。 She knew surprisingly little about her sister’s life. 令人驚訝的是,她對姐姐的生活知之甚少。
Language Bank surprisingsurprisingHighlighting interesting data 強調有趣的數據 What is surprising about these results is that boys are more likely to be left-handed than girls. 這些結果令人吃驚的是男生比女生更可能是左撇子。
Surprisingly, boys are more likely to be left-handed than girls. 令人吃驚的是男生比女生更可能是左撇子。
Interestingly, even when both parents are left-handed, there is still only a 26 per cent chance of their children being left-handed. 有趣的是,即使父母都是左撇子,他們的孩子也只有26%的機會是左撇子。
One of the most interesting findings is that only 2 per cent of the left-handers surveyed have two left-handed parents. 最有趣的發現之一是,在接受調查的左撇子中,只有2%的人有兩個左撇子父母。
It is interesting to note that people are more likely to be left-handed if their mother is left-handed than if their father is. 有趣的是,母親是左撇子的人比父親是左撇子的人更可能成爲左撇子。
The most striking feature of these results is that left-handed mothers are more likely to have left-handed children. 這些結果中最引人注目的一點是左撇子母親更可能生左撇子孩子。