出乎意料 - beyond expectation (idiom); unexpected - chū hū yì liào | Definition | ChinesePod.com

出乎意料

chū hū yì liào

Pinyin

Definition

出乎意料

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chū hū yì liào

beyond expectation (idiom); unexpected

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

fù chū

1 to pay
2 to invest (energy or time in a friendship etc)

rèn yì

1 any
2 arbitrary
3 at will
4 at random

shēn chū

1 to extend

sì hū

1 apparently
2 to seem
3 to appear
4 as if
5 seemingly

chū

1 to go out
2 to come out
3 to occur
4 to produce
5 to go beyond
6 to rise
7 to put forth
8 to happen
9 (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result)
10 classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc

Idioms (20)

一意孤行

yī yì gū xíng

1 obstinately clinging to one's course (idiom)
2 willful
3 one's own way
4 dogmatic

一言既出，驷马难追

yī yán jì chū , sì mǎ nán zhuī

1 lit. once said, a team of horses cannot unsay it (idiom); a promise must be kept

一鼻孔出气

yī bí kǒng chū qì

1 lit. to breathe through the same nostril (idiom); fig. two people say exactly the same thing (usually derog.)
2 to sing from the same hymn sheet

三心二意

sān xīn èr yì

1 in two minds about sth (idiom)
2 half-hearted
3 shilly-shallying

之乎者也

zhī hū zhě yě

1 lit. 之[zhī], 乎[hū], 者[zhě] and 也[yě] (four grammatical particles of Classical Chinese) (idiom); fig. archaic expressions

Sample Sentences

没想到大热天的竟然还有这么多人来逛书展啊！真是出乎意料！

méixiǎngdào dàrètiān de jìngrán hái yǒu zhème duō rén lái guàng shūzhǎn ā ！zhēn shì chūhūyìliào ！

I never thought there'd be so many people at the book fair on such a hot day! It's really unexpected!

出乎意料

chūhūyìliào

unexpectedly, outside of one's expectations

但是银行和钢铁股的下跌有些出乎意料。到底是什么原因呢？下面，我们请分析师冯先生来帮我们分析一下。

dànshì yínháng hé gāngtiě gǔ de xiàdiē yǒuxiē chūhūyìliào 。dàodǐ shì shénme yuányīn ne ？xiàmian ，wǒmen qǐng fēnxīshī Féng xiānsheng lái bāng wǒmen fēnxī yīxià 。

But the drop in the banking and steel industries was somewhat surprising. Why did it happen? Coming up next, Mr. Feng will analyze the situation for us.