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

• He shoved me back out of the room.
  他把我从房间里推了出来。
• 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。
• I hope I can depend on you not to back out at the last moment.
  我希望你绝对不会在最后的时刻变卦。
• 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。
• 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。
• When she came back out the car was gone.
  然而，当她回来时汽车竟不见了。
• 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。
• But I have to go back out there!
  但我要回那里去！
• I gave her a lift back out to her house
  我让她搭我的便车回家。
• You know you can still back out of it, right?
  你知道你还是可以取消的，对吧？