Someone was doing research and asking young people: "What would you never want to do when you grow up"? The results gave her a list. Every item on that list is called an "entry"補登. High up on the list means higher to the number one position. The fact that the entry "president" was so high on the list of things people never want to do is quite a surprise.

Yeah I totally agree, I think may be that is why I wasn't able to get it right, because as a foreigner I learn English from the grammatical method. I will be messed up as long as the grammatical structure isn't clear and precise.

Yeah I totally agree, I think may be that is what I wasn't able to get it right, because as a foreigner I learn English from the grammatical method. I will be messed up as long as the grammatical structure isn't clear and precise.

Thea meaning is as everybody pointed out, however I just want to say that the grammatical construction of the last sentence is terrible. "Even higher on the list of things you probably never want to do when you grow up, however, is a surprising entry." If "...is a surprising entry" is the predicate, then where is the subject? Shouldn't it have been "it being even higher"? Even so the sentence is so confusing and the starting present continuous form of a verb just hurts the eye so much. I would have rewritten this sentence as: "The fact that it is/was even higher on the list of things you'll probably never want to do when you grow up is/was surprising."

It means if a person makes a list of professions that are undesireable, being president is surprisingly high on the list.