They think it'll be easy but they have a surprise in store.

他们以为事情容易，到时候他们会吃惊的。

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All he said in the letter was that he'll be bringing a surprise packet to us.

他信中的整个内容说的就是他要带给我们一个惊喜。

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It's no surprise that Edward Wilson, in his essay, "In the company of ants", advises readers who ask what to do with the ants in their kitchen to: " Watch where you step. Be careful of little lives."

难怪 Edward Wilson 在他的文章《与蚂蚁为伴》中建议那些提问如何处理厨房中的蚂蚁的读者们：“注意你的脚下，小心小生命。”

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So, empathy, caring, sympathy don't kick in, but instead there's the aggression unleashed at somebody and there has to be some level of surprise.

所以移情，关怀，同情没有发挥作用，反而是释放了别人的侵略情绪,还必须在一定程度上出人意料。

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It poses other kinds of difficulty, let's say; but in the case of fiction, in order to be engaged, in order to enter the hermeneutic circle properly, we need the element of surprise, as I say, as a way of distinguishing between fiction and nonfiction.

它的确带来了其它困难，我们可以这样说;,但是在读文学时，为了投入进去，为了合适地进入解释循环，我们需要“惊讶“这个元素，正如我所说，作为区分文学和非文学的一点。

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We don't have to worry about how you solve it, but it's problem in mathematics and the answer will be--surprise, it's going to be oscillating back and forth and that'll come out of the wash.

我们没必要去担心这个方程该怎么解,但这个数学问题的答案将会是令人惊讶的,弹簧会来回振荡,问题就迎刃而解了

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