1、in surprise与to ones surprise的区别。
2、in surprise意为“惊奇地”常位于动词之后作状语,表示方式.如：John turned around and looked at me in surprise．约翰转过身来,惊奇地望着我。
3、to ones surprise或to the surprise of sb．意为“使某人吃惊的是”、“出乎意料地”,常位于句首,作状语,表示行为的结果.类似的结构有：to ones joy/delight/pleasure使某人高兴的是。
4、有时为了强调产生某种情感的程度,可在to后面的名词前加great,deep等形容词或在to前加副词much.如：To the surprise of the young couple,they found the necklace missing．使这对年轻夫妇惊奇的是,他们发现项链不见了。
5、take…by surprise的含义：短语动词take…by surprise意为使……吃惊,使……出其不意,对……进行突然袭击等.如：I took him by surprise and he had no time to think of an excuse.我（的询问）使他出乎意料,他没有时间想出借口。
6、她对他的粗鲁行为毫无思想准备,以至突然哭了起来.The enemy took the town by surprise.敌军对该城实行突然攻击。