aback的意思|aback的解释-里氏词典

aback [ə'bæk]

ad. 向后, 朝后, 突然, 船顶风地

We were all taken aback by the news of Prince's divorce.
王子离婚的消息让我们感到很吃惊。
I was rather taken aback by his rudeness.
他粗俗无礼，使我吃了一惊。
Lao Wang seemed taken aback.
老王似乎很吃惊。

aback

[ adv ]

having the wind against the forward side of the sails

<adv.all>

the ship came up into the wind with all yards aback

by surprise

<adv.all>

taken aback by the caustic remarks

Aback \A*back"\ ([.a]*b[a^]k"), adv. [Pref. a- + back; AS. on
b[ae]c at, on, or toward the back. See {Back}.]
1. Toward the back or rear; backward. ``Therewith aback she
started.'' --Chaucer.

2. Behind; in the rear. --Knolles.

3. (Naut.) Backward against the mast; -- said of the sails
when pressed by the wind. --Totten.

{To be taken aback}.
(a) To be driven backward against the mast; -- said of the
sails, also of the ship when the sails are thus
driven.
(b) To be suddenly checked, baffled, or discomfited.
--Dickens.

Aback \Ab"ack\ ([a^]b"ak), n.
An abacus. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.

The neighbors were taken aback.
This isn't just a mass hysteria." Still, even Mr. Tellig was taken aback by the claim that cryogenics can improve CD sound.
Even colleagues were taken aback at his television denunciation of Mrs Margaret Thatcher as 'evil' on the eve of her resignation.
He was also taken aback by the fact that Britain's integration with the European Community could be held up by exchange rates and the weakness of sterling - see his account of Heath's visit to Bonn in 1973. Later he learned from the experience.
The acquisitions Stakis made last year did not 'add a single body to our head office payroll,' says Mr Michels. The stock market was not taken aback by Stakis's capital raising announcement.
Taken aback, Mr. Kasparov fell into time pressure and, ultimately, a lost position.
Mrs. Reagan was quoted by her press secretary as saying, "I was taken aback by the vengefulness of the attack.
I was particularly taken aback by the shameless way that Leonard E.B. Andrews, who bought not only the pictures but their copyrights, was allowed to promote them as if there were no self-interest involved.
But they weren't aired widely, and some traders were taken aback by them during Monday's briefing.
The upsurge in Standard Chartered shares continued unabated, with many brokers, but few marketmakers, taken aback by the speed of the latest upsurge.
Maryellen Cattani, senior vice president and general counsel for American President Companies Ltd. in San Francisco, said she was recently taken aback when a firm took three months to send a bill.
Industry executives were taken aback at the homolies inserted in his normally hard-nosed speeches.
"I told that to Christo at one of our meetings, and and he was quite taken aback, and he said, `No!
The Yeomans were taken aback.
"I was taken aback," he says.
Even Ms. Lunbeck says she was taken aback by the Dumpster contents.
Ms. Lambe said she was "taken aback" after none of the district's education officials was invited to the meeting.
Chantee Charles of nearby Arlington, Va., one of three youngsters invited to speak at a Rose Garden ceremony, appeared to take the president aback with her musings on capital punishment, which she called murder.
The results were close to analysts' expectations, but Wall Street was clearly taken aback by the asbestos-litigation charges.
They were taken aback on Tuesday, when, at a press conference on Yugoslavia, Mr Baker mentioned almost ironically, the 'extraordinarily generous' US offer in the Gatt negotiations.
Her face was flushed and she seemed taken aback by the spectators' reactions.
Hostility had been replaced by murmurs, the mumbles and mutters that serve as words when taken aback by somebody's bad news. My verbal assailant turned into awkward, uncomfortable protector.
Anne McDermott, a banking analyst at Kidder Peabody & Co., said investors were taken aback by the scope of the downgrade and its timing.
Though Galoob has been foundering in recent months, analysts were taken aback by the suddenness of Mr. Galoob's resignation, which was announced at an annual shareholders' meeting.
So, having had three or four cards flashed under my nose, I started bargaining. The pimp in question was taken aback.
He is taken aback in an interview when asked whether, as mayor, he plans on reforming the political "fiefdoms" that perpetuate the monumental ineffectiveness of New York's school system.

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