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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。
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.
这个月，这学期干开始，王伟就被吓了一跳，他发现有55个学生申请了性教育作为副修课，而一个教室只能容下50个人。
While I was initially taken aback by negativity of the people, I eventually learned to manage it and channel it into conscious action.
在我最初被这群消极人类弄得措手不及的同时，我终于学会了处理这事儿并且把它引导成自觉行为。

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.
在这点上我们被震惊了，被这种粗鲁的打断深深震惊了,否则诗人的悲叹将会天衣无缝的流畅通顺下去。
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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.
他虽然比普通人个子大很多,但人们并不会感到惊异,因为在那个时代有生理缺陷极为寻常
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What did take us aback is that it now includes S Pen handwriting recognition.
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If you are taken aback by something, you are surprised or shocked by it and you cannot respond at once.