stun(SHOCK)
Her writing shows astonishing depth.她的作品思想深刻，令人惊讶。
His facility for languages is astonishing.他的语言天赋惊人。
Ellen's familiarity with pop music is astonishing.埃伦对流行音乐之精通令人吃惊。
What other astonishing nuggets of wisdom do you have for us?你还有什么惊人的至理名言要告诉我们吗？
Old people often have astonishing powers of recall.老年人经常会表现出惊人的记忆力。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Surprising and shocking
against all expectationsphrase
amaze
amazing
amazingly
astonishing
dumbfoundingly
dynamite
earth-shaking
earth-shattering
earth-shatteringly
pull
pull something out of the bag/hatidiom
raise (a few) eyebrowsidiom
reality check
sensationalist
turn-up for the book(s)idiom
unbelievable
walk
walk in on someone
world-shattering

astonish | American Dictionary

astonish
verb[ T ]
us/əˈstɑn·ɪʃ/
to surprise someone very much:
We were astonished at how much she had aged.
It was astonishing to see the size of the crowds for the Pope.

astonishment

noun[ U ]us/əˈstɑn·ɪʃ·mənt/
To the astonishment of her colleagues, she turned down the award.

Examples of astonish

astonish
That is monstrous, but it does not astonish me.
All these recordings are characterized by astonishing vocal blend, perfect enunciation of the texts, and a feeling of genuine liturgical 'presence'.
The vacuolated cytoplasm contains numerous inclusions, sometimes of astonishing size, considering that there is no hint of a cytostome.
That a president would knowingly surrender so completely his ability to make foreign policy is astonishing.
It should not be surprising if s/he makes errors in this domain; on the contrary, it would be astonishing if s/he did not.
Every time we get a glimpse into the world of prehistoric objects of wood, antler, textiles and so on we are astonished.
We are astonished again when we are leaving it - but this time astonished at our own reactions.
We were astonished when first we saw this building.
I got the distinct feeling here of being an astonished onlooker trying to follow other people's arguments.
What is astonishing is that these apes, in the face of so much futility, persist in their attempts to manipulate people through intentional communication.
It is astonishing to think of the progress made since then.
However, this policy was pursued from a position of astonishing weakness.
Thus, it is not astonishing that some parts of the book are, for their intrinsic nature, rather difficult and addressed prevailingly to mature readers.
So it may not be astonishing that the validation of the model took place mostly in the context of theoretical physics.
Most of what has happened in human genetics in the last ten years has been the result of the astonishing manipulative power of molecular biology.
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