How should “a bolt from the blue” be translated?
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The result must be surprising, right? ?
It can be understood from several perspectives: 1. The golden age of American comics, which gave rise to a superhero character named Blue Bolt; his superpower was the ability to create flashes of light. A forced translation of this would be \"lightning thrown by blue lightning.\" 2. In English, “out of the blue” also means without any warning, appearing out of nowhere; it can also be understood as a bolt that appears out of thin air somewhere. 3. It explains more forcefully that there’s a flash of lightning in the blue sky; this is something I added myself, and it can be translated as unexpected – something sudden, right?
I searched on Baidu and found that “qingkong pili” means extreme shock