5 ZITATE AUF ENGLISCH MIT «ABACK»
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aback.
People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.
I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show recently and I was sat in the make-up chair chatting to a guy say next to me but I couldn't look round and see who it was, it was only when I got up I realised it had been Bryan Adams I'd been talking to!
Even when I do roles that are really profoundly abusive, like, I would say, in 'Deadwood' - there's a guy who's a breeding ground for ignorance and hurtful behavior - the fact that people are so taken aback by that is a good thing because they're looking at themselves, and there's a part of me in there, too.
People have interpretations of what you're supposed to be like. If you're unattractive and overweight, you must have a great personality. If you're attractive, then you must not be the nicest person. People are always taken aback that I'm easygoing but not necessarily stupid.
If our extinction proceeds slowly enough to allow a moment of horrified realization, the doers of the deed will likely be quite taken aback on realizing that they have actually destroyed the world. Therefore I suggest that if the Earth is destroyed, it will probably be by mistake.
10 BÜCHER, DIE MIT «ABACK» IM ZUSAMMENHANG STEHEN
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The English Dialect Dictionary: Being the Complete ...
Not in S. & Ork.1 ABACK, prep, and adv. In Sc. and all the n. counties to Lin. and
Chs., Stf. War. [aba'k.] 1. prep. Of position : behind, to the rear (usually with prep.
of). Nhb.1 Howay aback o' the hoose an' aa'll show ye. He com' in at the finish ...
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The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete ...
Yks. Lan. [abfi'k] 1. prep. Of position: behind, to the rear. Gen. wit 0 . Sc. (A.W.) Ant
. Aback o' the midden, STEVENSON PatMcCarty (1903) 44. Lakel. A tale may be
told about some one aback of his back; and another comes frae aback o' t'fells, ...
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Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage
'behind, to the rear' + cit from Ayr: 'The third that gaed a wee aback'] D In present
BrE, OED says aback is now confined chiefly to nautical lang. IT-1 says it is '
archaic' or 'nautical' in AmE. The development of this sense (wh seems confined
to ...
Richard Allsopp, Jeannette Allsopp,
2003
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Evolution of Corporate Financial Reporting (RLE Accounting)
aBack. to anageof falling prices?«, The Economist(13 July 1974), pp. 62¥63. 8.
A. C. Littleton andV. K. Zimmerman, Accounting Theory: Continuity and Change (
Prentice-Hall, account of these in A. C. Littleton developments is to be found ...
T. A. Lee, Robert H. Parker,
2014
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A Naval Encyclopædia: Comprising a Dictionary of Nautical ...
They are mug l aback, or taken aback, by a shift of wind, or by inattention at the
helm. Flat aback means that the wind acts nearly at a right angle to the forward
surface of the sail. Taken aback is also used fl'guratively for being taken by
surprise ...
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The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of ...
The main-topsail must be braced sharp aback, keeping the fore and mizzen-
topsajls full, because the wind acts with a very small sine of incidence on a sail
when full, in comparison to what it does when braced sharp aback ; so that the ...
Nathaniel Bowditch, Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch,
1846
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The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of ...
If she has been going large, she will not range precisely head to wind, since her
head- way ceases as soon as the sails are taken aback, and the effort of the wind
acts on all the rigging of the ship to impel her both astern and to leeward, which ...
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American Practical Navigator
To lie to windward of a ship so as not to drift near her. The main-topsoil must be
braced sharp aback, keeping the fore and mizzen-topsoil full, because the wind
acts with a ve small sine of incidence on a sail when full, in com parison to what it
...
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The New American Practical Navigator; Being an Epitome of ...
The main-topsail must be braced sharp aback, keeping the fore and mizzen-
topsails full, because the wind acts with a very small sine of incidence on a sail
when full, in comparison to what it does when braced sharp aback ; so that the ...
ABACK, ABACK A, ABACKEN, behind, at the back of— sometimes shortened to
back. " Howay aback o' the hoose an' aa'll show ye." " He com' in at the finish just
aback on him." " Aw dream'd aw was at the North Fowl, It's a fine place aback o' ...
10 NACHRICHTEN, IN DENEN DER BEGRIFF «ABACK» VORKOMMT
Erfahre, worüber man in den einheimischen und internationalen Medien spricht und wie der Begriff
aback im Kontext der folgenden Nachrichten gebraucht wird.
Clinton Campaign Frustrates Journalists Yet Again By Roping Off …
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Brad Stevens: Terry Rozier's 'speed is the highest level'
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In 40 Years Since Arthur Ashe's Historic Wimbledon Win, Progress …
In 2012, after losing to Angelique Kerber at the U.S. Open, Venus Williams told ESPN, she was taken aback by what she considered newfound ... «Bleacher Report, Jul 15»
The Heartbreaking Reality Of Raising A Teenage Addict
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“I knew nothing about catheters, and was a bit taken aback when I received one,” she says. “In retrospect, I would have like to know about that ... «Yahoo Parenting, Jul 15»
Third eye: When former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran got …
The team was taken aback to see some little known faces, who are not even members of BJP or affiliated to it in any way, appearing on ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»
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And they said they weren't even taken aback by the dark paneling that made the place look like a cave. "We're people who can see the bones," ... «NorthJersey.com, Jul 15»