The reply took him so much aback that for a moment he was lost for words.

這個答覆使他大吃一驚,一時不知道說些什麼好。

The little girl screamed and it took us aback .

小女孩的尖叫聲嚇了我們一跳。

We were all taken aback by the news of the Chairman's resignation.

主席辭職的消息使我們都感到驚異。

Jenny was taken aback by some of the portraits.

其中一些肖像畫使詹妮大吃一驚。

I was taken aback by what I saw.

我被眼前看到的嚇了一跳。

She takes after her mother.

她長得像她母親。

My great-grandfather is terribly forgetful and I take after him,I can never remember anything.

我的曾祖父非常健忘,我像他,什麼也記不住。

Margaret takes after her father in being strong-willed.

瑪格麗特意志堅強,像她父親。

With her light hair and blue eyes Mary seems to take after her mother, but in character she is more like her father.

瑪麗那淺色頭髮和藍眼睛使她看上去像她母親,而她的性格則更多像她父親。

They took legal action against him.

他們對他訴諸法律。

It's time to take action against the rising crime rate in this city.

該是採取措施防止這個城市犯罪率上升的時候了。

Action will be taken against anyone who breaks the law.

任何違法者都將受到指控。

Please don't take it amiss if I venture to point out your errors.

假如我冒昧指出你的錯誤,請不要見怪。

His joke was taken amiss by some of the company.

他開玩笑的話使幾個朋友不高興。

Take the watch apart and see if you can find out what's wrong with it.

把這塊表拆卸開,看看你能否找到毛病在哪兒。

One error might make it necessary to take the whole thing apart and start over again .

只要出一點差錯,就得全部拆卸,重新裝配。

He took the machine apart to show every detail of its operation.

他把機器拆開,讓大家看操作的每個細節。

To take the tower apart would mean wasting a lot of labour.

要把這座(反應)塔拆開會浪費大量勞動。

The reviewer mercilessly took apart the young writer's first novel.

評論家把這位年輕作者的第一部小說抨擊得一無是處。

I've just come in to take the dirty dishes away.

我是來取用過的盤子的。

Please don't take your hand away, it makes me think that you don't like me.

請不要把手拿開,那會讓我認為你不喜歡我。

If you can move up behind the gunman you may be able to take his gun away without a fight.

如果你能摸到那帶槍的歹徒身後,可能不用搏鬥就能把他的槍奪下來。

Not to be taken away.

不要拿走。

These books are for reading in the library, and may not be taken away.

這些書只能在圖書館閱讀,不能拿出去。

I'd like to take you away for a holiday, but I don't know when we shall be able to afford it.

我真想帶你去度假,可我不知道咱們什麼時候能付得起這筆費用。

That school is terrible; I shall take the child away at once.

那學校太糟糕了,我馬上就把孩子帶走。

You have no business taking another man's wife away with you.

你沒有權力帶走一個有夫之婦。

What takes you away so early?

為什麼你這麼早就走?

They would allow foreign investors to take away their capital gains.

他們允許外國投資者把投資所獲的利潤帶走。

The prisoner was taken away by an armed guard.

一個持槍的獄警把犯人帶走了。

The child was taken away from its parents on the recommendation of social workers.

這個孩子經社會福利工作人員介紹被人從其父母那兒領走了。

These magazines must not be taken away from the library.

這些雜誌不得攜帶出圖書館。

His Olympic medals and trophies were taken away from him.

他的奧林匹克獎章和獎牌被收了回去。

This drug should help to take the pain away .

這葯可以止痛。

If you put picric acid solution on a burn it will take the pain away at once.

如果你把苦味酸溶液塗在燒傷處可立即止痛。

I'm sorry, my attention was taken away for a moment.

對不起,剛才我走神了。

27 take away 3 leaves 24.27

減去3還剩下24。

What is left when you take away 25 from 100?100

減去25還剩多少?

I'd like three pieces of chicken to take away , please.

我要買三塊雞肉帶走。

Don't let him take away your freedom to think for yourself.

別讓他剝奪你獨立思考的自由。

The shock news quite took my breath away .

這突如其來的消息簡直讓我驚訝不已。

Will you take $500 for the car?

你願以500美元買這輛車嗎?

Tom took the blame for his brother's mistake.

湯姆為他弟弟受過。

He was ready to take the consequences for his act.

他準備承擔他的行動所引起的後果。

His illness has taken a turn for the better.

他的病情已經好轉。

The weather took a turn for the better in the afternoon.

下午天氣變好了。

Her illness has taken a turn for the worse.

她的病情惡化了。

The situation in that country is taking a turn for the worse.

那個國家的形勢正在惡化。

I just took it for granted that you had been told about this.

我只是認為你已知道了這件事。

A teacher cannot take it for granted that his students always do their assignments as required.

老師不能想當然地認為學生總是按要求完成作業。

Mr. Richard took it for granted that his son was doing well at school and he felt much relieved.

理查德先生以為兒子在學校學得不錯,因而感到很寬慰。

We took it for granted that they would come and join us in the discussion.

我們滿以為他們一定會來參加我們的討論呢。

This well-known saying was taken from Serve the People .

這句名言摘自《為人民服務》。

I asked you not to put hot cups on the piano; take them off at once, please!

我跟你說過不要把熱杯子放在鋼琴上,請馬上把它們拿走。

I can't take the lid off, it's stuck!

這蓋子給卡住了,我拿不下來。

Help me to take this handle off.

幫我把這柄取下來。

Last night's strong wind nearly took the roof off!

昨夜的大風差一點把屋頂刮掉了。

A gentleman takes his hat off when greeting a lady.

紳士向女士打招呼時總是要脫帽的。

I shall never take off this ring which you gave me until I die.

只要我活著,我絕不摘下你給我的這個戒指。

Taking off his coat, he jumped into the river to save the drowning child.

他脫掉外衣,跳進水裡去救那溺水的孩子。

I knew that my father regarded me as a woman instead of a girl, the first time he took off his hat to me when we met.

當父親見到我第一次脫帽向我致意時,我知道他已經不再把我看作小姑娘而是看作一位成年女人了。

You've done a remarkably fine job — I take my hat off to you!

你幹得真出色——本人深表欽佩!

In order to save the seriously wounded soldier, the surgeon decided to take off his left leg.

為了搶救那位重傷戰士的生命,外科醫生決定將他的左腿截去。

Before the ship sank, all the passengers were safely taken off.

船沉前所有的乘客都被救出來了。

The six boys got into the car and took off for the drug store.

六個孩子上了汽車,匆忙離開去藥店了。

I'd like to take off for the country as soon as I've finished work tomorrow.

我想明天工作一結束就到鄉下去。

The director has taken the visitors off to his office.

經理把客人帶到他辦公室去了。

Take yourself off, you're not wanted here.

你走吧,這兒不需要你。

The tiger took off from the ground with a powerful spring.

老虎從地上猛地一躍而起。

Watch that bird taking off from the branch!

注意看那隻鳥從枝頭飛起來!

A helicopter is able to take off and land straight up and down.

直升機可以直接起飛和降落。

We took off so smoothly that the passengers could hardly feel it.

我們的飛機起飛非常平穩,乘客幾乎沒有感覺到。

The attack will take off from our position near the harbour.

將從我們在港口附近的陣地上發起攻擊。

The early morning train is being taken off for the summer.

早班火車夏季將停運。

The 5 a.m. train has long been taken off.

凌晨5點的那趟車早已被取消了。

It is said the concert has been taken off.

據說音樂會已經被取消了。

The play was taken off after only three performances.

這齣戲只演了三場就停止公演了。

We have taken the fish off, as it was not good.

這魚不好,我們把它從菜單上去掉了。

I'm so pleased that I've been able to take off all that weight and get into my good clothes again!

我的體重終於大減,那些漂亮的衣服又合身了,我真高興!

They took off 25 percent discount for each article.

他們給每件商品都打了七五折。

The government has promised to take off the new tax as soon as possible.

政府答應儘快減少新徵稅額。

I'd like to take next Monday off to visit my sister in hospital.

我想下星期一休一天假,去看望我那住院的姐姐。

I'm going to take a week off next month.

下個月我要休假一個星期。

You need a break. Why not take a fortnight off from work?

你需要休息,為什麼不休假兩周呢?

Bob likes to take his teachers off.

鮑勃喜歡模仿他的老師。

Bill took off Winston Churchill to perfection.

比爾模仿丘吉爾,模仿得惟妙惟肖。

The children do like to take off the new teacher, who has a noticeable manner of walking.

那位新來的老師走路的樣子很特別,孩子們很喜歡模仿他。

The captain decided to take Snow off and try a slower bowler.

隊長決定把斯諾撤下,換一個動作慢一點的投球手試一試。

After a slow start, the plan soon took off and was accepted by all the directors.

該計劃開始時進展緩慢,但後來很快取得了成功,從而獲得了所有董事的同意。

The circle of supply and demand should soon take off as the country's trade position improves.

由於國家貿易地位的改善,供銷一定會很快出現興旺局面。

We must provide some really interesting new courses where the students can really take off.

我們必須設置一些學生們真正喜歡的確實有趣的新課程。

Many young people take off on loud music.

許多年輕人一聽到喧噪的音樂就興奮起來。

She was taken off by a rare tropical fever some years ago.

幾年前一種罕見的熱病奪去了她的生命。

A quarrel was developing between husband and wife; it was high time I took myself off.

丈夫與妻子越吵越厲害,我該走開才是。

Watch out for trouble when the director takes off the gloves to his Board!

當那位董事要與董事會爭吵起來,要謹防出亂子!

Let's go to Mary's house.We can take a chance on her being there.

咱們去瑪麗家吧。碰碰運氣,也許她在那兒呢。

Every time he had a bad day at work he would come home and take it out on his wife and children.

每當他白天工作不順心時,回到家裡就會向妻子兒女發脾氣。

The strikers took over the factories.

罷工工人接管了工廠。

She took over his work after his departure.

他離開以後,她接替了他的工作。

We usually take the children to school in the car.

我們通常開車送孩子們上學去。

The children were taken to Richmend Memorial Hospital for examination.

孩子們被帶到里士滿醫院去作體格檢查。

The criminals took to the hills to escape from police.

罪犯們為了躲避警察而逃入山中。

Father is ill, so he's taken to his bed.

父親病了,因此卧床休息了。

He took to Sally from the moment he met her.

他一見到薩莉就喜歡上她了。

She thought she would be nervous looking after the horses but she soon took to them.

她原以為她會害怕養馬的,但她很快喜歡起它們來了。

We ask him if the Russians would take to golf.

我們問他俄國人是否喜歡高爾夫球。

Bill took to drink while he was a sailor.

比爾在當水手時很喜歡喝酒。

He has recently taken to staying in bed of a Sunday morning.

他最近養成了星期日早上不起床的習慣。

After a few years as a teacher he left the profession and took to journalism.

他當了幾年教師之後,又改行當起記者來。

He took to repairing watches in his spare time.

他開始利用空閑時間修表。

He took to French as though it had been his native language.

他覺得法語就像母語一樣容易學。

Father tried to teach John to swim, but John didn't take to it.

父親試圖教約翰游泳,但約翰很難學會。

Take care not to take up the hot coals with your bare hands.

小心別光著手去拿燙煤。

He took up the telephone receiver and began to dial.

他拿起電話聽筒開始撥號碼。

Taking up a child under each arm she ran out of the fire.

她一手抱起一個孩子,衝出大火。

The men are coming tomorrow to take the stair mat up, ready for our move.

工人們明天要來掀掉樓梯地毯,為我們搬家作準備。

This old tree will have to be taken up by its roots.

這棵老樹必須連根拔起。

Half the road surface is being taken up to lay new electric wires.

為了埋新電線,一半路面被掀開。

Who will take breakfast up to your mother?

誰上樓給你媽媽送早餐?

Please take these letters up to the main office.

請把這些信件送到總局。

This kind of paper claims to be able to take up more liquid than any other kind.

據說這種紙比其他紙吸水性強。

It's very difficult to take up a dropped stitch in this pattern.

這種織法要補針極難。

Now the fashion tells us all to take our skirts up again!

現在的流行式樣又讓咱們都把裙子弄短!

It can take up the whole afternoon to prepare a meal.

準備一頓飯有時要費一下午的時間。

The table takes up too much room.

這張桌子占的地方太大。

That big clock will have to go, it takes up too much space in the small hall.

那個大鐘得拿走,它在這小廳里占的地方太大。

Writing in another language demands so much effort that it takes up all my attention.

用另外一種語言寫作太費勁,我得全力以赴才行。

When does the Minister take up his office?

那位部長何時就職?

I hope to take up my new duties as your chairman at the next meeting.

我希望在下屆大會以你們主席的身份開始工作。

At the age of sixty he took up the study of Russian.

在60歲時他開始學習俄語。

When did Joan first take up music?

瓊是什麼時候開始對音樂感興趣的?

I wish I'd never taken up smoking.

我要是從不吸煙就好了。

Jane will be lucky if she is taken up by the famous singer.

如果簡得到那位著名歌唱家提挈,她就會走運。

Beckett was taken up by Joyce before becoming a famous writer.

貝克特在成為名作家之前受到過喬伊斯的指導。

The train stops here to take up any further passengers, and then goes fast all the way to London.

列車在這裡停車,再上一些乘客,然後快速直駛倫敦。

Joan took up the story when her sister forgot the next detail.

瓊的妹妹忘記了後面的故事情節,瓊便接著講下去。

I put the telephone down and took up my work again.

我放下電話繼續干我的活。

All the other children in the bus took up the song.

公共汽車上的其他孩子們也都跟著唱起那首歌來。

The whole crowd took up the shout.

整個人群都呼喊起來。

I'd like to take the boy's case up with a good lawyer.

我想把那孩子的案件交給一位優秀的律師辦理。

I'll ask the next speaker to take up your suggestion.

我將請下一位發言人談談你的建議。

I'd like to take up your offer of a ride into town.

我願接受你的邀請,搭你的車進城。

I must take you up here,I cannot agree.

我必須在此打斷你一下,我不能同意。

You won't get far with your statement before the chairman takes you up short!

你說不了幾句話主席就會打斷你!

I took him up sharply when he mentioned the wrong date.

當他提到那個錯誤的日期時,我打斷了他的話。

The girls will take up a collection at the end of the concert.

音樂會結束時,姑娘們就要募集捐款。

When can we take up the new shares?

我們什麼時候才能付新股票的錢?

He kindly offered to take up the note of my debt.

他好意地提出要為我支付欠債單。

The boat has been in the water a long time, and the boards have taken up.

這艘船已下水很長時間了,船板都緊了。

Take up those loose ropes, your tent will fall down!

把那些鬆了的繩子拉緊,你的帳篷要倒了!

This part of the machine is for taking up the film.

機器的這一部件用來拉緊膠片。

These wires must be taken up or the machine will not work.

必須把這些電線繞緊,否則機器不能運轉。

All the young men of the village offered to take up arms against the neighbouring people who kept attacking them and stealing their cattle.

村裡的年輕人都願意拿起武器,迎戰那些不斷攻擊他們並偷盜他們家畜的鄰村人。

Once he's taken up a defensive attitude, it's difficult to persuade him that there's nothing to be afraid of.

一旦他採取防範的態度,再要使他相信什麼也不必擔心就困難了。

I wonder if he really means that, or if he's just taking up a position on the matter.

我不知道他是真有那種意思呢,還是僅僅在此問題上表明一下自己的觀點。

More people are beginning to take up the cause of children's rights.

有更多的人開始投身於維護兒童權益的事業中。

He said you can't possibly finish in time; are you going to take up his challenge?

他說你未必能按時完成; 你打算接受他的挑戰嗎?

Someone has to take up the cudgels for children's rights, as the children are helpless to do it themselves.

必須有人來大力維護兒童權益,因為他們自己尚無力爭取。

She has taken up with the fellow she met in London.

她已經與那個她在倫敦碰到的人來往了。

She has taken up with some very strange people.

她和一些很古怪的人交往密切。

Frank has taken up with Lucy lately.

弗蘭克最近常與露西在一起。

He has taken up with a bunch of pleasant, hardworking friends.

他結交了一批性情愉快、工作努力的朋友。

He is not one to take up readily with new ideas.

他並不是一個樂意接受新觀念的人。

She took up with the idea of becoming a musician.

她一心想成為一個音樂家。

He can't help, he's too taken up with his own problems.

他幫不了什麼忙,他自己的問題還應付不了呢。

He's very taken up with his new job.

他一心撲在新的工作上。

I am quite taken up with the author's style.

我非常喜歡這個作者的風格。