aback

UK:  [ə'bæk]

US:  [ə'bæk]

adv.

1.使船后退

2.向后;【航海】逆帆

1 . Moseley was taken aback; he said he wanted to spend time fact-finding first.
莫斯利措手不及；他说他需要先花时间进行实地调查。

2 . But even he might have been taken aback by the recipe concocted by Peter Ferlow.
但是就连他也可能会对彼得·费尔罗调制的配方大吃一惊。

3 . She was a little taken aback, but then she reminded herself, "Well, if I'm going to die, the best way is to die meditating. "
她有点吃惊，不过，她接著提醒自己，“好吧，如果要死，最好是死在禅定当中。”

4 . She must have been a little too taken aback to reply as I can't seem to recall what she had to say to that.
她一定是花了很长时间才反应过来怎样回答我，因为我记不起她当时是怎么说的了。

5 . None of these reversals is a surprise, but conservatives have been taken aback at the unflinching speed of the changes.
这些政策反转中，没有一项令人感到奇怪。但是保守派人士却着实被这种迅猛改变的速度吓了一跳。