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

• I had to bend them back out to get the lids to fit right.
  我不得不弯回来了让盖子，以适应的权利。
• We're hoping that no one will back out of the deal.
  我们希望没有人会退出这笔交易。
• 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。
• You wenthome, came back out again, andthen you hid your little toy.
  你到了家，又回去了，接着又把你的小玩具藏起来了。
• He shoved me back out of the room.
  他把我从房间里推了出来。
• We drove into a dead end and had to back out.
  我们把车子开进了一条死胡同，只得退出来。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。