The typhoon swept over the town out of a sudden and rendered a lot of people homeless.
Examples (Wiktionary)
Mandarin
这突如其来的消息使他大为震惊。
這突如其來的消息使他大為震驚。
zhè tū rú qí lái de xiāo xī shǐ tā dà wéi zhèn jīng .
This sudden news caused him great shock.
Mandarin
突如其来
突如其來
tū rú qí lái
all of a sudden (literally, "it comes, like charging")
Mandarin
按照情况,对于犯错误的同志采取恰如其分的合乎实际的批评,甚至必要的斗争,这是正常的,是为了帮助他们改正错误。
按照情況,對於犯錯誤的同志採取恰如其分的合乎實際的批評,甚至必要的鬥爭,這是正常的,是為了幫助他們改正錯誤。
àn zhào qíng kuàng , duì yú fàn cuò wù de tóng zhì cǎi qǔ qià rú qí fèn de hé hū shí jì de pī píng , shèn zhì bì yào de dòu zhēng , zhè shì zhèng cháng de , shì wèi le bāng zhù tā men gǎi zhèng cuò wù .
It is normal, in accordance with the merits of the case, to mete out appropriate and well grounded criticism to comrades who have erred, and even to conduct necessary struggle against them; this is to help them correct mistakes.