flat-footed

常見例句

Though these scenes lend black humor and boisterous vitality to the opera, they are musically flat-footed.
盡管這些場景為歌劇增添了黑色幽默以及很強(qiáng)的活力，但在音樂上還是平淡的。
He believes that the new approach limits his exposure to getting caught flat-footed by a sudden change in technology or business practices.
他相信這樣的一個新方法可以降低他陷入到一個無準(zhǔn)備的突然的技術(shù)或者商務(wù)活動的變化的境地。
We don't want the country to be in a position next year like we were in 2000, in which problems occur, and the public is left flat-footed in understanding the problems and the possible solutions.
我們不希望在明年置身像2000年的情況，出現(xiàn)問題，然后讓民眾們一頭霧水地去理解這個問題和想出可能的解決辦法。” 斯圖爾特談到這次大會時如是說。

The most natural,straightforward,literal,flat-footed interpretation.
最自然，直接，理性和踏實(shí)的解釋。
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But an early election—January would be the earliest the law allows—could catch his Likud rival, Binyamin Netanyahu, flat-footed.
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