aback
aback 英 [əˈbæk] 美 [əˈbæk]
adv. 向后；处于顶风位置；向后地；吓了一跳
- To be taken aback is to be taken by surprise. You might be taken aback when your grandmother suddenly demonstrates her yodeling skills.
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- adv. 向后；处于顶风位置；向后地；吓了一跳
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1. 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。
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2. 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。
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3. 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。
- aback (adv.) c. 1200, a contraction of Old English on bæc "backward, behind, at or on the back;" see see a- (1) + back (n.). Now surviving mainly in taken aback, originally a nautical expression in reference to a vessel's square sails when a sudden change of wind flattens them back against the masts and stops the forward motion (1754). The figurative sense from this, "suddenly or unexpectedly checked or disappointed," is by 1792.
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