http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/compareto.html
These are sometimes interchangeable, but when you are stressing similarities between the items compared, the most common word is “to”: “She compared his home-made wine to toxic waste.” If you are examining both similarities and differences, use “with”: “The teacher compared Steve’s exam with Robert’s to see whether they had cheated.”
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take aback
take aback
v : surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off; "I was floored
when I heard that I was promoted" [syn: {shock}, {stun},
{floor}, {ball over}, {blow out of the water}]
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take aback
ph.
1. 使震惊
We were greatly taken aback by her attitude.
她的态度使我们大为震惊。
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as of
prep.
On; at: The project was terminated as of January 1.
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From, at, or until a given time. For example, As of five o'clock the store will be closed for inventory, or As of last December our meetings have been open to the public, or As of now I'm not sure how I'll vote. This idiom was first used in business but came into more general use. [c. 1900]
I saw the idiom "as of" for many times. In most of the chances, I saw it from the accounting textbook. As I thought before, phrases and idioms, which are made of words, are very powerful although they are very short in length. Compaing with sentences, these phrases and idioms are more active and more lively. I can feel the power of language through them.
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I got it from the Wall Street Journal Asia Edition.
http://chinese.wsj.com/gb/20070709/ffe173313.asp?source=channel
This is the description from wikipedia.com
This is a phrase that describes that the amount of something is too big and it is hard to clearly count. I got this word from The Lord of The Rings.
