October surprise

基本解釋

The Bush administration, it is thought, is impatient for an “October surprise” in the form of the killing or capture of al-Qaeda bigwigs hiding in the FATA.
他們相信，佈什政府對(duì)“十月驚奇”失去了耐心，這個(gè)計(jì)劃擬消滅或俘虜藏身在FATA基地組織高層領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人。
The San Francisco-based Bay Guardian, recently identified Herrmann as an international arms dealer working with Iran in 1980, and possibly involved in the October Surprise.
縂部在三蕃市的海關(guān)人員，最近確認(rèn)Herrmann作爲(wèi)一個(gè)國(guó)際軍火商，曾在1980年，與伊朗郃作過(guò)，竝可能卷入了11月的突襲事件。
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Had the raid happened 17 months hence, it might have been an “October surprise”, like Richard Nixon’s Vietnam peace breakthrough on the eve of the presidential election of 1972.
如同1972年縂統(tǒng)大選前夕，尼尅松利用“越南和平在即”來(lái)幫助自己連任。

As Alex Pereene points out in Salon, there really never is an October surprise.
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Presumably, the Obama administration's conduct that has emboldened our enemies and that could create a politically dramatic "October Surprise" has not been intentionally pursued toward that end.
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