主题：借人气问一问：英文里怎么表述“冷门”，“爆冷”？ -- landy

I just got the similar answer from an American friend. I tried to explain the situation by saying “hi, man, if Chinese basketball team beats US in Olympic game, what would you say?” “Come on, I would say, it is a miracle!”

Faint.

Later he gave me the same word “upset”.

I also found the following from Cambridge dictionary:

upset

noun

1 [U] confusion and problems:

How much upset will the new monitoring procedures cause?

2 [C] when someone beats the team or player that was expected to win:

It would be quite an upset if the favourite didn't win.