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词汇 example_english_unpleasant-surprise
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unpleasant surprise

collocation in English

meanings of unpleasantand surprise


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unpleasant
adjective
uk /ʌnˈplez.ənt/ us /ʌnˈplez.ənt/
not enjoyable ...
See more at unpleasant
surprise
noun
uk /səˈpraɪz/ us /sɚˈpraɪz/
an ...
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Examples of unpleasant surprise


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For some householders there will be an unpleasantsurprise when the rate is fixed for the coming year.
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They anticipated retirement in every way, and, perhaps, these new proposals have been something of an unpleasantsurprise to them.
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I hope in this case that what at one stage looked like a slightly unpleasantsurprise may prove to have served a useful purpose.
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I am bound to say also that it was an unpleasantsurprise.
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I think that he might get an unpleasantsurprise.
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I am pleased that, whenever we have given in to those calls in the past decade and a half, it has invariably been an unpleasantsurprise for his party.
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His newly changed personality comes as somewhat of an unpleasantsurprise, and he alienates his friends.
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This was very odd, and supports the idea that an unpleasantsurprise awaited him.
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To his unpleasantsurprise, it was a gin instead of water.
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Slade is an unpleasantsurprise for the family, as he deliberately provokes everyone and the night ends in acrimony.
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I imagine that other speakers would have experienced such unpleasant surprises, too.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Naturally there have been some unpleasant surprises, and also some awkward things have happened, as might be expected beforehand.
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The rapporteur stressed this in his report, but it continues to be the case that we come up against unpleasant surprises in this area.
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Obviously, a mathematical average can hide a variety of unpleasant surprises.
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Consumers received many unpleasant surprises from the mortgage deals that they had been sold.
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During the last dozen years they have had two very unpleasant surprises.
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Such an early enforcement process can help to avoid unpleasant surprises in 2020.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Indeed, to the medical man, unpleasant surprises are constantly being revealed, in the case both of drugs and of chemicals used in food preparation.
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Of course, war is full of ugly and unpleasant surprises.
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I am convinced that they will receive some unpleasant surprises.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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