What Alice, waiting for a reply, was faced with was a sudden howl. It was a resounding noise, sharp as to burst her ear drums, loud as to reach unto the heavens.
突然ですが、みなさんは「若者から見下された」と感じたこと、ありますか?
This is out of the blue, but has everybody once felt 'looked down upon by young folk'?
当然よ、抜き打ちなんだもの。
Why of course, that's what the "surprise" means.
田中さんのミスを僕がフォローするんだから、労働に見合った報酬を受け取るのは当然だ。
I'm patching things up for your mistake so it's only natural that I get a reward appropriate to my labours.
秀樹ったら、当事は全っ然こっちに慣れなくてね、しょっちゅうふてくされてたのよ。
Hideki, he really hadn't settled in here at all and sulked all the time.
試験結果発表もつつがなく終わって、当面の視点が自然と夏休みに集まってくるでしょ?
The publication of the exam results over without incident, for the time being attention is naturally going to focus on the summer break, right?