Your latest electricity bill may have been a rude shock.

你最近的电费账单可能让你大吃一惊。

Until this time the inauguration of a President—even that of Jefferson, the apostle of simplicity—had brought no rude shock to the course of affairs at the capital.

在此之前，一位总统的就职典礼——甚至是简明主义的倡导者杰斐逊的就职典礼——都没有给首都的事务进程带来太大的冲击。