knock for a loop
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knock for a loop (第三人称单数简单现在时 knocks for a loop,现在分词 knocking for a loop,一般过去时及过去分词 knocked for a loop)
- (及物,俗语) 使...惊讶,使...困惑,使...动摇,使...犹豫
- 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, 出版于 1965,页号 7:
- [Denham answered] "Gas bombs, Old Man! My own prescription. […] Gas bombs powerful enough to knock a row of elephants for a loop."
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- 1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest[2], →ISBN,页号 394:
- Poor Janice, she'll be knocked for a loop. She'll feel she's let her father down.
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- 2008 September 7, Anita Gates, “Stage: Dinner and a Show, in One Spot, at One Price”, 出自 The New York Times[3], retrieved 2 August 2014:
- Karyn McNay as Ulla, the sexy Swedish actress/receptionist/cleaning woman, knocks the audience for a loop too.
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