Miami-based businessman Gerardo Padilla says many people were taken aback by the ousted leader's foreign policy goals.

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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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This is what takes him aback, to discover that he's mortal.

就是这点让他惊讶，发现自己会死。

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