喜樂美語
  1. 1rB1/sərˈpraɪzɪŋli/ · /səˈpraɪzɪŋli/出乎意料地

    In a way that is more, less, or better than is usual or than people expected. It nearly always comes in front of an adjective, an adverb, or a word like 'little' or 'many', and it can also start a sentence to comment on the whole idea.

    示範例句 · Example

    The spelling test was surprisingly easy — Mei finished it before the bell.

    逐字那個拼字測驗出乎意料地簡單——美在鐘響之前就完成了它。

    「surprisingly」講的不是「某人很驚訝」，而是「這件事跟大家原本以為的不一樣」——通常比想像中更簡單、更好、更多或更少，所以它幾乎都站在形容詞或數量詞前面：surprisingly easy、surprisingly little。可以想成：句子背後都躲著一個沒說出口的預測（考試「應該」很難、竹橋「應該」會晃），surprisingly 就像在那個預測旁邊點一下，說「結果偏到旁邊了」。中文「他驚訝地看著我」是在描述表情，那要用 in surprise，不是 surprisingly。

    常見搭配

    • surprisingly easy

      出乎意料地簡單

      much easier than you thought it would be

      Once Leo watched the video, folding the paper crane was surprisingly easy.

    • surprisingly good

      出乎意料地好

      much better than you thought it would be

      The school band is new, but their first concert was surprisingly good.

    • surprisingly little / few

      出乎意料地少

      much less or fewer than you would expect

      The town has changed surprisingly little since Grandma was a girl.

    • a surprisingly large number of

      數量出乎意料地多的…

      many more people or things than you would expect

      A surprisingly large number of families joined the weekend clean-up.

    • seem / look surprisingly + adjective

      看起來出乎意料地…

      to appear much more or less something than you would expect

      After the long hike, Aisha seemed surprisingly fresh.

    • not surprisingly

      不意外地；果然

      as you would expect

      Not surprisingly, the tickets were gone within an hour.

core核心畫面

One way to hold this word: the speaker had a rough expectation in mind, the real fact turned out to sit off from it, and this word is the little tag they stick on to say so. It does not change the fact — it marks the gap between the fact and what you would have guessed.

可以想成說話的人心裡本來有個大概的預期，結果實際情況跟那個預期對不上，於是他順手貼上這個小標籤說一聲「跟想的不一樣」。它不改變事實本身，只是標出「事實」和「你原本會猜的樣子」之間那個落差；落差可能是多了、少了，也可能是比預期好。

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原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

surprisinglyadv/səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/

  • 1

    In a way that causes surprise because it is unexpected, or unusual.

    • Near-synonyms: unexpectedly, unusually
    • The house was surprisingly small for such a numerous family.

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