His sudden change of opinion took his colleagues all aback.

他突然改变主张，使他的同事们都大吃一惊。

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At first I was a little taken aback by all that money, paid by tax dollars, and with the U.S. stuck in a budget crisis.

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Count Klein among those taken aback by all the attention.

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Upon seeing an individual in a Beverly Hills parking lot talking away on the kind of wireless later used to great effect by Michael Douglas in the movie Wall Street, all three of us were taken aback.

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