【绝望的主妇】“我们本应该预见到这事儿的。”

【句子】Neither one of us saw that coming. 【Desperate Housewives S02E02】 【发音】/ˈnaɪ.ðə(r)/ /wʌn/ /əv/ /ʌs/ /sɔː/ /sɑː/ /ðæt/ /ˈkʌm.ɪŋ/ 【发音技巧】one of连读；that coming失去爆破； 【翻译】我们都没有料到会发生这样的事情。 【适用场合】 see something coming 是什么意思呢？ “预见到某件（不太好的）事情的发生、到来”； to realize that there is going to be a problem before it happens eg: We should have seen it coming. There was no way he could keep going under all that pressure. 我们本应该预见到这事儿的。那么大的压力，他肯定扛不住的。 eg: I saw this coming: You've been working too hard for too many days in a row not to come down with a really bad flu. 我早就预见到了，你连续拼命工作太多天了，所以患上了严重的流感。 eg: No one else had expected the factory to close, but we saw it coming. 别人都没有预料到这家工厂的关闭，但是我们早就有预判。 【尝试翻译以下句子，并留言在文章留言区】 Fortunately, we saw this service shutdown coming, so we set up a secondary system for dealing with customer queries in the meantime.