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单词 off-guard
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off-guardˌoff-ˈguard adjective [not before noun] Examples
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  • Beauty had become an abstraction; she was never caught off-guard by it.
  • Carson seemed to have been taken off-guard by her appreciation.
  • Caught off-guard Wednesday, he apologized and reversed course.
  • Caught off-guard, he blushed slightly, blinked his hazy blue eyes, and looked away in embarrassment.
  • Malcolm liked to rattle you, catch you off-guard by making demands nobody could possibly meet.
  • When half-asleep and off-guard her vocabulary was raunchy.
catch/take somebody off-guard to surprise someone by happening when they are not expecting something or prepared for it:  The sudden snow storm caught us all off-guard.
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