震惊

Three years ago, ripples of shock surged into a tidal wave of grief as England and the world mourned the death of Princess Diana The gates of Kensington Palace, where Diana lived, became a gathering place for the tens of thousands who came to express their sadness.

3年前，英国王妃黛安娜在法国车祸身亡，曾激起举世震惊她居住的肯辛顿宫前堆放了成吨的花束，英国各界也为她举行了备极哀荣的葬礼和纪念活动但经过3年的变迁，英国人对黛安娜的思念迅速消退，今年黛安娜的逝世纪念日，仅有少数人前往悼念。

When I first saw the result, I was terrified.

当我第一次看到结果时，我很震惊。

Indeed when we entered, by special permission, the Doges' chapel, San Marco, I was caught by the throat by its splendor-its walls of gleaming tessellated gold.

当我们经过特许进入到总督的圣马可礼拜堂时，它的宏伟壮丽使我震惊得说不出话来——墙面用金子镶嵌成花纹状，闪闪发着光亮。

I couldn't have been more shocked if the house and all of us in it had fallen into the River Thames.

没有比这让我更震惊的消息了，那怕是这房子和这房子里的人都掉进了泰晤士河。

Milt Larsen, Founder and President of the Magic Castle, Inc said, In my 45 years at the Castle, people repeatedly say of Richard Turner that it is the most astounding act of sheer skill they have ever witnessed.

"米尔特拉森，创始人和主席的魔术城堡，公司说，在我45年的城堡"，人们一再理查德特纳说，它是纯粹的技能，他们见过的最令人震惊的行为。

The religious people or people who mistake Theosophy as spiritualism would be very much shocked by some of the ideas expressed in the letters.

宗教人士或那些将通神学错当成唯心主义的人可能会对这些信表达的一些思想感到非常震惊。

When Achilles was still a baby, Thetis was that her son would die in war.

当阿基里斯还是个婴儿的时候，忒提斯听到一种预言：儿子会在战争中死去，她大为震惊。

I was thrilled! I don't know how you pulled it all together.

我太震惊了，我不知道你怎么把这些都扯倒一起。

And yet, it seems we are often surprised by what the future throws at us.

但是，我们却经常被我们的未来所震惊。

The man who claims to be a "post-partisan" centrist seems to bechannelling the spirit of William Jennings Bryan, the original Americanpopulist, who thunderously demanded to know "Upon which side shall theDemocratic Party fight—upon the side of 'the idle holders of idlecapital' or upon the side of 'the struggling masses'?"

现在，这个将自己称之为"后政党制度"的中间派的人仿佛开始把美国民粹主义创始人威廉？班扬的思想套用过来。这个威廉？班扬曾经这样令人震惊的质问："民主党到底是为谁而战？是有钱有势又游手好闲的资本家还是劳苦大众？"

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。