出人意料
chū rén yì liào
Pinyin

Definition

出人意料
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chū rén yì liào
  1. unexpected (idiom)
  2. surprising

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

人
rén
  1. 1 man
  2. 2 person
  3. 3 people
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
  5. 5 classifier: 位 wèi
人生
rén shēng
  1. 1 life (one's time on earth)
出
chū
  1. 1 to go out
  2. 2 to come out
  3. 3 to occur
  4. 4 to produce
  5. 5 to go beyond
  6. 6 to rise
  7. 7 to put forth
  8. 8 to happen
  9. 9 (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result)
  10. 10 classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
出来
chū lái
  1. 1 to come out
  2. 2 to appear
  3. 3 to arise
别人
bié ren
  1. 1 other people
  2. 2 others
  3. 3 other person

Idioms (20)

一人得道，鸡犬升天
yī rén dé dào , jī quǎn shēng tiān
  1. 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
  3. 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
  4. 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一意孤行
yī yì gū xíng
  1. 1 obstinately clinging to one's course (idiom)
  2. 2 willful
  3. 3 one's own way
  4. 4 dogmatic
一言既出，驷马难追
yī yán jì chū , sì mǎ nán zhuī
  1. 1 lit. once said, a team of horses cannot unsay it (idiom); a promise must be kept
一鸣惊人
yī míng jīng rén
  1. 1 to amaze the world with a single brilliant feat (idiom); an overnight celebrity
一鼻孔出气
yī bí kǒng chū qì
  1. 1 lit. to breathe through the same nostril (idiom); fig. two people say exactly the same thing (usually derog.)
  2. 2 to sing from the same hymn sheet

Sample Sentences

那我就推荐他的第一部侦探小说给你吧，名字叫做《放学后》。这是一部校园悬疑小说，情节紧凑，结局出人意料。
nà wǒ jiù tuījiàn tā de dì yī bù zhēntàn xiǎoshuō gěi nǐ ba ，míngzi jiàozuò 《fàngxué hòu 》。zhè shì yī bù xiàoyuán xuányí xiǎoshuō ，qíngjié jǐncòu ，jiéjú chūrényìliào 。
Then I'll recommend his first detective novel. It's called 'After School'. It's a thriller based in school, the plot is very fast-paced and the ending is really unexpected.
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是啊，现在网上的作品大部分是网络写手和编辑们一起制造的。如果写到哪一章追的人少了，编辑会立马让你搞出一些出人意料的情节，比如把一个最受欢迎的配角写死，或者来一场激情戏什么的。
shì a ，xiànzài wǎngshàng de zuòpǐn dàbùfēn shì wǎngluò xiěshǒu hé biānjímen yīqǐ zhìzào de 。rúguǒ xiědào nǎ yī zhāng zhuī de rén shǎo le ，biānjí huì lìmǎ ràng nǐ gǎochū yīxiē chūrényìliào de qíngjié ，bǐrú bǎ yī gè zuì shòuhuānyíng de pèijué xiě sǐ ，huò zhě lái yī chǎng jīqíngxì shénme de 。
Yeah. Nowadays most works online are made with writers and editors together. If few people follow some chapter, the editor will make you come up with a plot that's unexpected. For instance, like writing in the death of a beloved supporting character, or some romance story.
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大家看，紧跟在芙蓉身后的这两位，从打扮就可以知道，是的，她们是春哥和曾哥，听说这次会以组合的方式参赛，真是出人意料。
dàjiā kàn ，jǐngēn zài Fúróng shēnhòu de zhè liǎngwèi ，cóng dǎbàn jiù kěyǐ zhīdào ，shì de ，tāmen shì Chūngē hé Zēnggē ，tīngshuō zhècì huì yǐ zǔhé de fāngshì cānsài ，zhēn shì chūrényìliào 。
Everyone, take a look at the two people following closely behind Fu Rong. Just from their get-up you can tell who they are. That's right, they're Brother Chun and Brother Zeng. I've heard they've formed a partnership for this competition. A real surprise for everyone.
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