【摩登家庭】“让人措手不及。”

【句子】Just don’t tell me it came from out of the blue. 【Modern Family-S2E6】
【发音】[dʒʌst] [dəʊnt] [tel] [mi:] [ɪt] [keɪm] [frɒm]/[frɑ:m] [aʊt] [əv] [ðə] [blu:]
【发音技巧】just don’t tell两处完全失去爆破；it came完全失去爆破；out of连读+美音浊化；
【翻译】（万事皆有因），你别告诉我这事儿突然就这么发生了！
【适用场合】
out of the blue
跟蓝色有什么关系呢？
If something happens out of the blue, it is completely unexpected:
发生某事非常意外；
其实这个短语在使用的时候，大家可以联想一个场景，本来蓝蓝的天空，突然出现一道闪电，让人吓一跳，完全没有预料到。
所以：out of a clear blue sky 或者 a bolt from the blue其实也可以表达类似的含义。

eg: My old roommate called me out of the blue.
突然，我以前的室友打电话给我。（我压根没预料到）

eg: One day, out of the blue, she announced that she was leaving.
突然有一天，她说她要走了。

eg: Her brother showed up at the wedding out of the blue.
她的哥哥毫无预兆地出现在了婚礼上。（事先大家都不知道他要来）

I was totally blindsided.
我完全傻眼了。
blind adj. 瞎的；看不到的；
blindside v. 给某个人一个突然的打击；让某个人措手不及；
to give someone an unpleasant surprise by doing something that they were not expecting:

eg: The recession blindsided a lot of lawyers who had previously taken for granted their comfortable income.
这次经济的衰退，对于之前那些舒舒服服拿着高薪的律师们来说，无疑是突然而来的重重一击。

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Investors claimed they had been blindsided by recent changes in the tax laws.