吃惊的

From 1659 to 1681, showcasing one's holiday spirit in Boston could cost you a fine of as much as five shillings. That's right, Christmas used to be illegal. It's somewhat surprising then that the same puritanical minds also created the first American batch of eggnog at Captain John Smith's 1607 Jamestown settlement.(The word "nog" comes from the word grog, that is, any drink made with rum). Christmas was so inconsequential that after the Revolutionary War, Congress didn't even bother taking the day off to celebrate the holiday, deciding instead to hold its first session on Christmas Day, 1789. It took almost a century for Congress to proclaim it a federal holiday.

从1659年到1681年，要是在波士顿你和某个人一起庆贺圣诞的话，你就得被罚5先令了没错，圣诞节过去是非法的令人吃惊的是同样是在清教徒思想下，约翰·史密斯上尉却在1607年詹姆斯敦镇做出了第一批美国蛋酒（鸡蛋酒eggnog中的nog是从grog这个词演化来的，它的意思是由朗姆酒做出的酒）圣诞节在独立战争后也并不是很重要的节日国会甚至没有把这个日子定为节假日他们甚至选在1789年的圣诞节这天召开了第一次会议国会在几乎一个世纪之后才宣布圣诞日是个联邦的法定节假日4。

But what surprised me most was to see at the back of the room, on the benches which were usually empty, some people from the village sitting, as silent as we were: old Hauser with his three-cornered hat, the ex-mayor, the ex-postman, and others besides.

而且整个教室有一种不平常的严肃的气氛。最使我吃惊的，后边几排一向空着的板凳上坐着好些镇上的人，他们也跟我们一样肃静。其中有郝叟老头儿，戴着他那顶三角帽，有从前的镇长，从前的邮递员，还有些旁的人。

To our surprise, the Buddha does not praise his enthusiastic monastic followers for their unremitting dedication to the non-Self doctrine and its meditative cultivation, but actually castigates them for having fallen into "extremes".

让我们吃惊的是，佛陀没有表扬他的热心的僧侣修炼者由于他们的不懈的奉献给无我的教义而且他的冥想修炼，但是完全申斥他们已经掉入了极端。

These sections have a homey immediacy lacking in the rest of "Living History," which for all its roller-coaster drama — all the political scandals, marital woes and startling comebacks and reinventions — radiates the faintly stale air (particularly unnerving in the audio versions of the memoir) of being the carefully rehearsed and elided statements of a professional pol intent on turning a book tour into the first leg of another campaign.

这些部分有着《活着的历史》其他部分缺乏的家庭式的直接，这本书中那些过山车似的戏剧，所有那些政治丑闻、婚姻灾难以及书中人物让人吃惊的复原和重造，散发着轻微的陈腐气味，（在这本书的声音版中尤其让人疲惫），是一个专业政客经过仔细排练删节的政治宣言，目的是要把一本书的巡回宣传转变成另一场政治运动的第一场表演。

Despite having climbed only four years, Chis may very well be the best sport climber in the world. Recently, Chris astounded the climbing establishment with a second place finish at the World Championships, possibly the single most prestigious climbing event in the world. In the month previous to the event, Chris completed the hardest boulder problem on American soil,"Crown of Aragon"(V13), climbed two 5.14a's in a day, and onsighted

虽然只有四年的经验，Chris 很可能是世界上最棒的攀登著，最近他让人吃惊的在世界锦标赛拿到第二名，可能是世界上最有威望的事迹，在之前的一个月，Chris完成美国境内最难的抱石路线&Grown of Argon&(V13)，一天爬两条5.14a的路线（几乎是onsighting第一条，onsighted程度

You may not be very interested in computer games and you may want to hear more tips on cross-stitching, however, if you are open to the potentials in someone else's world, you can find new and interesting surprises.

你可能对电脑游戏没有兴趣，而是想听更多十字绣的提示；但是，如果你能激发别人世界中的潜力，你可以找到新的和有兴趣的令人吃惊的事物。

You may not be very interested in computer games and you may want to hear more tips on cross-stitching, however, if you are open to the potentials in someone else's world, you can find new and interesting surprises.

你可能对电脑游戏没有兴趣，而是想听更多十字绣的提示；但是，如果你能激发别人世界中的一潜力，你可以找到新的和有兴趣的令人吃惊的事物。

If the effect on the skyline is startlingly dematerialised, its presence at street level is made manifestly material by the inclusion of a huge sculpture by Anish Kapoor.

如果说大楼对于天际线的效果具有令人吃惊的非现实感，那么大楼在街道水平面上的外观则因为加入了阿尼什·卡普尔的巨型雕塑而具有清晰的现实感。

Surprisingly Professor Drummond finds life South of the Slot more attractive than the lifestyles of the wealthy and welleducated people he leaves behind him.

令人吃惊的是德拉蒙教授发现贫民窟南部人生活更魅力远远超过了那些所谓的富人以及受过良好教育的人的生活他因此抛弃了他原来的生活。

But more surprising miracle is,however, not the majestic pyramids of Khufu posture, but the number of "coincidences": people now know,the distance from the Earth to the sunis 146.24 million km, and the average distance between the Sun is 146590000 km, being a unit of astronomical measurement; If the current height of the pyramid of Khufu 146.59 meters get multiplied by the billions, the result is exactly 146,590,000 kilometers!

但更为令人吃惊的奇迹，并不是胡夫金字塔的庞大，而是发生在胡夫金字塔上的数字&巧合&：人们到现在已经知道，从地球到太阳的距离，也就在14624万公里到15136万公里之间，而人们将地球与太阳之间的平均距离14659万公里作为一个天文度量单位；如果把胡夫金字塔的高度146.59米乘以十亿，其结果正好是14659万。

For a big chunk of credit-card losses; the number of filings (and thus charge-off rates) would be rising again, whether

年美国个人破产法的一个改动使得破产登记急速下降，而后引起了信用卡大规模的亏损。

Eph. 4:23 And that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind

弗四23 而在你们心思的灵里得以更新