Surprising

Definition

surprise /sǝ'praÇz/ n (က) [U] အံ့အားသင့္ျခင္း။ အံ့ဩျခင္း။ အံ့ ဖြယ္။ Their defeat caused little surprise (ie was expected). ❍ To my surprise, the plan succeeded. ❍ They lost, much to our surprise. ❍ Imagine our surprise on seeing her there. ❍ She looked up in surprise when I shouted. ❍ He expressed surprise that no one had offered to help. (ခ) [C] အသစ္အဆန္း။ အငိုက္ဖမ္းျခင္း။ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္မထားသည့္ အရာ။ What a nice surprise! ❍ There were few surprises in the Chancellor's budget speech. ❍ Her letter came as a complete surprise (to me). ❍ He likes springing surprises on people. ❍ a surprise visit/ attack/ party. v ၁။ အံ့ဩသည္။ အံ့အားသင့္သည္။ She's over 80? You surprise me! ❍ She was rather surprised by his rude behaviour. ❍ It wouldn't surprise me/ I wouldn't be surprised if they got married soon. ❍ Would it surprise you to know that I'm thinking of leaving? ၂။ ႐ုတ္တရက္ တိုက္ခိုက္သည္။ စီးနင္းသည္။ အငိုက္ဖမ္းသည္။ surprise the opposition (ie attack them when they are not prepared) ❍ We came home early and surprised a burglar trying to break in. ❏ surprise, surprise [ IDM ]( infml often ironic ) (အံ့ဖြယ္ အျဖစ္သံုးသည့္ စကား)။ Surprise, surprise! I've bought you a present! ေဟာ…ေဟာဒီမွာ မင္းအတြက္ လက္ေဆာင္။ ❍ One of the candidates was the manager's niece, and surprise, surprise, (ie as one would expect) she got the job. အလုပ္ေလွ်ာက္တဲ့အထဲမွာ မန္ေနဂ်ာတူမပါေလေတာ့ အံ့ဖြယ္သရဲ သူပဲ ရသြားတာေပါ့။ ❏ surprised adj ~ (at/ by sth/ sb) အံ့ဩေသာ။ အံ့အားသင့္ ေသာ။ wearing a surprised look on his face ❍ We were very surprised at the news. ❍ I'm surprised at you, behaving like that in front of the children. ❍ She was very surprised to see him there. ❍ I'm surprised (that) he didn't come. ❍ He was rather surprised by her reply. ❍ It's nothing to be surprised about. ❏ surprising adj အံ့ဖြယ္။ မေမွ်ာ္လင့္ေသာ။ a surprising result ❍ It's (hardly) surprising (that) they lost. ❍ A surprising number of people came. ❏ surprisingly adv အံ့ဩစရာေကာင္းတာက။ အံ့ဩစရာ ေကာင္းေလာက္ေအာင္။ Surprisingly, no one came. ❍ She looked surprisingly well. ❏ take sb/ sth by surprise [ IDM ] စီးနင္းတိုက္ခိုက္သည္။ အငိုက္ဖမ္းသည္။ The town was well defended so there was little chance of taking it by surprise. ❏ take sb by surprise [ IDM ] အငိုက္ဖမ္းသည္။ အငိုက္ မိသည္။ Her sudden resignation took us all by surprise.

Examples

1. There were few surprises at Wimbledon this year.
2. [come as a surprise] : Holman’s arrest came as a surprise to the entire community.
3. [come as no surprise] : Given the dismal sales performance
4. the change of management came as no surprise.
5. [surprises in store] : Let’s hope there are no more unpleasant surprises in store for us.
6. [be in for a surprise] : The players could be in for a surprise if they expect an easy victory.
7. I never knew Sheila had been married – that was a real surprise.
8. Henderson led the team to a surprise win in the final.
9. They keep the room ready for surprise visitors.
10. Many students expressed surprise at the news.
11. [(much) to someone’s surprise] : Much to my surprise
12. the restaurant was actually very nice.
13. I got you a little surprise for your birthday.