If it doesn't surprise, it isn't worth it; it doesn't have value.

如果它不会令人惊讶，它就不值得，它就没有价值。

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He wrote an amazing diary. He was a loner.

他写的日记令人惊讶不已,他不合群

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And odds are if a week hence, two weeks hence just for fun you decide to reimplement your Scratch project -- or some tiny piece of it, it wouldn't be surprising -- or shouldn't be -- if you end of implementing the same game or animation or whatever using a completely different set of puzzle pieces Same deal we'd see here.

可能一周之后，两周之后，为了好玩,你决定重新实现你的Scrtch工程,或者其中一小部分，它将不会是令人惊讶的-,本来也不应该是--如果你运行相同的游戏,或者是动画，亦或是用完全不同的设置,来运行拼图游戏,我们将看到相同的处理。

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