taken aback

基本解釋

But even he might have been taken aback by the recipe concocted by Peter Ferlow.
但是就連他也可能會(huì)對(duì)彼得·費(fèi)爾羅調(diào)制的配方大吃一驚。
When the new semester started earlier this month, he was taken aback to discover that 55 students had applied for the new minor, which only had room for 50.
這個(gè)月，這學(xué)期干開(kāi)始，王偉就被嚇了一跳，他發(fā)現(xiàn)有55個(gè)學(xué)生申請(qǐng)了性教育作為副修課，而一個(gè)教室只能容下50個(gè)人。
While I was initially taken aback by negativity of the people, I eventually learned to manage it and channel it into conscious action.
在我最初被這群消極人類弄得措手不及的同時(shí)，我終于學(xué)會(huì)了處理這事兒并且把它引導(dǎo)成自覺(jué)行為。

Miami-based businessman Gerardo Padilla says many people were taken aback by the ousted leader's foreign policy goals.
I think we're taken aback here. We're taken aback by the rude interruption in the otherwise seamless flow of the poet's lament.
在這點(diǎn)上我們被震驚了，被這種粗魯?shù)拇驍嗌钌钫痼@了,否則詩(shī)人的悲嘆將會(huì)天衣無(wú)縫的流暢通順下去。
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選
He was so much bigger than everybody else, so people really were not taken aback, because this was a time when physical imperfections were commonplace.
他雖然比普通人個(gè)子大很多,但人們并不會(huì)感到驚異,因?yàn)樵谀莻€(gè)時(shí)代有生理缺陷極為尋常
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 歐洲文明課程節(jié)選

When the French looked like supporting the deal, the German negotiators were taken aback.
ECONOMIST: The proposed merger of BAE Systems and EADS