surprendre

. -Monsieur le Président, le contraire m’aurait surpris.
. – Mr President, I should have been surprised if it did not.
S’il n’avait pas utilisé ce fameux train, la fin de la guerre l’aurait surpris dans la Suisse lointaine et neutre, et il aurait raté la minute historique.
But if he had not used the famous train, the end of the war would have found him in distant and neutral Switzerland thus missing the optimal adequate minute.
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