2009年3月6日 星期五

lo and behold

下面這個句子來自今天cnn的報導。
"President Mugabe has a history of strange car accidents when
someone lo and behold dies -- it's sort of his M.O. of how they get rid of people they don't like."

M.O. ( modus operandi )(這是一個拉丁字)
a way of doing something that is typical of a particular person or group

lo and behold (see, look, esp joc or ironic ) (used to indicate surprise ):
spoken used before mentioning something surprising that happened - used humorously
例子:As soon as we went out, lo and behold, it began to rain.
   We had just been talking about John when, lo and behold, he walked into the room.
   He called the minister of the interior and, lo and behold, within about an hour,
   the prisoners were released...

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