Gathering himself quickly up, he stood more erect, like a man taken by surprise in a mood to which he was reluctant to have witnesses.

他立刻提起精神，挺直身子站住了，就象是一个人正处于不想被人看见的心情之中，突然吃了一惊似的。

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The development has even taken fellow Nasa scientists by surprise, and it promises to open new frontiers in space technology.

这一发现甚至使美国宇航局的科学家们感到措手不及，它意味着将打开太空科技的新领域。

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In the trailer, we see her attacked in an elevator, taken by surprise.

预告片中，我们目睹了她在电梯中被出其不意地偷袭。

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The speed of the shift in attitudes has taken businesses by surprise.

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The smartest pencil-necks in Silicon Valley were taken by surprise--as was Intel, which spent hundreds of millions on the idea that nearly all computer storage would migrate onto chips by 2000.

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"Since there had been stability in Indonesia for 30 years, foreign investors were taken by surprise, " says Stephanus Partono, an analyst for Goldman Sachs in Singapore.

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