flat-footed

常见例句

Though these scenes lend black humor and boisterous vitality to the opera, they are musically flat-footed.
盡琯這些場景爲歌劇增添了黑色幽默以及很強的活力，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備的突然的技術或者商務活動的變化的境地。
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，出現問題，然後讓民衆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，理性和踏實的解釋。
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