bất ngờ

Not expected, anticipated or foreseen.

• She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
• Certainly unexpected. The P[awn] is overprotected to the best taste of a Nimzowitsch devotee, and there seems to be no drastic weakness in White's camp to justify this intrusion.

điều bất ngờ

Someone or something unexpected.

ℹ Trong tiếng Việt, 'điều bất ngờ' thường được dùng như một danh từ chỉ sự việc, không dùng để chỉ người trong ngữ cảnh thông thường.

• Life is always full of the unexpected that we cannot foresee.Cuộc đời luôn ẩn chứa những điều bất ngờ mà ta không thể lường trước.