| 单词 | off-guard |
| 释义 | off-guardˌoff-ˈguard adjectiveadj [not before noun] catch/take somebody off-guard to surprise someone by happening when they are not expecting something or prepared for it 使某人措手不及，让某人猝不及防 The sudden snow storm caught us all off-guard. 突如其来的暴风雪让我们全都猝不及防。 Examples from the Corpus off-guard• Carson seemed to have been taken off-guard by her appreciation.• Beauty had become an abstraction; she was never caught off-guard by it.• Malcolm liked to rattle you, catch you off-guard by making demands nobody could possibly meet.• Caught off-guard, he blushed slightly, blinked his hazy blue eyes, and looked away in embarrassment.• When half-asleep and off-guard her vocabulary was raunchy.• Caught off-guard Wednesday, he apologized and reversed course. |
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