back out

英 [bæk aʊt]

美 [bæk aʊt]

食言; 违约; 退出

法律

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 食言；违约；退出
  If youback out, you decide not to do something that you previously agreed to do.
  1. Madonna backed out of the project after much wrangling...
     多番争吵之后，麦当娜退出了这个项目。
  2. Wells was supposed to put up half the money, but later backed out.
     韦尔斯本应当出一半的钱，但后来他食言了。

英英释义

verb

• make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
  1. We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him
  2. He backed out of his earlier promise
  3. The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns
  Synonym:retreatpull backback awaycrawfishcrawfish outpull in one's hornswithdraw
• move out of a space backwards
  1. He backed out of the driveway

双语例句

• "you won't back out?" she said.
  “你不会食言吧？”她说。
• She could not, in good conscience, back out on her deal with him.
  凭良心她不能背弃与他达成的协议。
• If you can back out of trouble you can experiment.
  如果你能过很好的处理遇到的麻烦，那你就可以进行试验。
• The rain was still coming down in buckets when we went back out.
  我们回去时，外面的倾盆大雨仍然下个不停。
• You know you can still back out of it, right?
  你知道你还是可以取消的，对吧？
• I stood in the driveway and watched him back out and pull away.
  我站在车道上，看着他把车倒出来然后开走。
• Haw just shook his head in disappointment and reluctantly went back out on his own.
  唧唧失望地摇了摇头，不情愿地一个人踏上了自己的旅程。
• Why don't you come back out? It'd mean a lot to me.
  你为什么不回来？那对我很有意义。
• Besides, she had already made a date with a friend, so how could she back out now?
  况且已经和人家约好了的，可怎么办！
• Please don't try to back out now that everything has been arranged.
  现在一切都安排好了，请不要打退堂鼓。