So it is not surprising that top is part of another expression that describes an important person.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

It's not surprising, therefore, that people should be eating more fruits and vegetables, and our ancestors were eating much more.

因此毫无疑问,人们应该吃更多的水果和蔬菜,而我们的祖先吃的更多

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

I thought the University positioned itself well to take advantage of this really not surprising collapse in housing prices.

我认为耶鲁摆正了自己的位置,妥善利用了,这次并不突然的房价崩溃

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So it is not surprising that Las Vegas is called The Gambling Capital of the World and The Entertainment Capital of the World.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

So, what happened, of course, after he discovered the nucleus, not surprising, he won a Nobel Prize for this - I would hope that he would.

虽然这里面有点复杂，当时发生了什么呢？,当然，发现原子核后,他毫无意外。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The flowers are mostly gone. It is not surprising that some people are sad in winter.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

I was very young then and it is not surprising that I felt as I did.

我当时很年轻，所以毫无意外的是,我当然也自觉如此。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The circus has been popular for so long that it is not surprising that words and expressions connected with it are part of everyday speech.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

And then the most surprising thing of all was a study done not long ago, published in 1997 of registered dieticians.

不久前的实验中,让人惊奇的事发生了,在1997年由注册营养学家发表

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

So it is not surprising that it is called The Entertainment Capital of the World.

VOA: special.2011.07.24

But if you think about it, it would not be surprising if the Gaussians, at least, gave us some surprising, more extreme, results, than the uniform.

但是如果你去思考，你不会惊讶高斯分布,会给我们的答案会，比均匀分布大。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

So it is not surprising that Americans still use expressions about the animals.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

And in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries this progression was viewed as an advance, which is not very surprising because the whole theory was put forward by scholars who were basically western monotheists.

在十八十九世纪，这个演变,被认为是一种进步，这并不奇怪,因为整个理论基本上都是由,西方一神论者提出的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So it is not surprising that there are many expressions about cats.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

It's not some deep surprising insight into the nature of death.

并不是对死亡本质的什么让人惊喜的见地。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The fact that Americans would be tired of having their sons and daughters at risk and in battle is not surprising,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

The answer is not particularly surprising.

答案并不意外。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Boston's always been an international city, so the excitement here about the World Cup is not surprising a Japanese student for Germany...

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

Maybe more surprising, Freud's insight that our likes and dislikes are due to factors that we're not necessarily conscious of, has a lot of empirical support--a lot of empirical support from research into social psychology, for example.

更令人惊奇的是，弗洛伊德所提出的,无意识因素决定我们喜恶的观点,得到了很多的实证支持，比如，得到了很多,来自社会心理学研究的实证支持。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

(Speaking) Zhuang says China is a huge country, so it is not surprising to see China overtaking Germany as the world's top exporter.

VOA: standard.2010.01.11

If,when we interpret the claim everyone dies alone, that just ends up being a slightly pretentious way of saying everyone dies, we might say,oh yeah,that is true and it is a necessary truth, but it's not especially surprising.

如果我们对每个人都孤独而死的诠释，只是装模作样地说明人终有一死，那我们会说，这是真理，也是必要的，但并没有什么好惊奇的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

That is not surprising says Arthur Allen, the author of "Vaccine."

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

So, it's not surprising that asset allocation explains more than 100% of returns and that, for the community as a whole, market timing and security selection are costly and lower the community's aggregate investment returns.

因此资产配置能解释100%以上的回报,也不足为奇了,对投资者整体来说,市场时机选择,和证券选择是有代价的,降低了总的投资回报

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"We are surrounded by countries with very tough laws, while we are very weak, so it is not surprising while many terrorists from other countries found their hotbed in Indonesia,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

But none seemed to agree on their favorite great book - not surprising, given there are about "I don't think there's anywhere else that you can more fully live the life of the mind.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

Their entry is not surprising. India is home to the world's cheapest car, the $2,055 Tata Nano, a car which auto analysts say showed the world that India had the engineering skills and low cost facilities needed to make a small, contemporary car.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

Mister Rehm said the high death rate is even more surprising because the large majority of adults around the world do not drink alcohol at all.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

That desire to live forever in a record book may not seem very surprising.

VOA: special.2011.05.16