meaning of the sentences

[Ksenia]

1 A You've never been there, have you?
B Actually, I have. I went last year.
A So that was a situation at the end of the year.
B Sorry, could you just run through the figures for the last quater again?
A So what do you think?
B Well, I can't say I'm totally enthusiastic about the idea.
A They didn't ask a single question after my presentation.
B No, they didn't, surprisingly I wonder why.
A I thought he handled the negotiation very well.
B Yes, it's obviously not the first time he's done something like that.

2 More worrying still is that it's only a month away.

1 How do you think if they didn't ask a single question does it mean that this presentation was sucessful or not?
2 It means that only one month left or one month has already passed?

 

[Tarheel]

Say:

No, they didn't. I wonder why.

1. Did they just not say anything? Or did they just not ask any questions? I don't know enough to know if the presentation was successful, but there is some doubt.

2. "Only a month away" means there is just one month to go. Just one month left.

 

[Roman55]

No, they didn't, surprisingly I wonder why.

If you want to use 'surprisingly' you should place it in front of 'they didn't'. As it stands it means that what is surprising is your wondering why.

 

[Ksenia]

This dialogue is taken from "Business Result" (Oxford), that's why I can't change the word order.

 

[GoesStation]

Perhaps you (or Oxford's editor) missed a period (full stop) in No, they didn't, surprisingly. I wonder why.

 

[Tarheel]

Note that I l left "surprisingly" out of my suggestion. The surprise is implied.

(When I posted that I did not, of course, know where the dialogue came from, but knowing the source makes the goof more surprising.)