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 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。
• When she came back out the car was gone.
  然而，当她回来时汽车竟不见了。
• I'm going back out into the jungle to talk to our friend with the beard.
  我打算回丛林和我们那位长胡子的朋友谈谈。
• But I have to go back out there!
  但我要回那里去！
• You wouldn't lose. I'd pay you back out of next year's cotton.
  你不会赔的。明年棉花收了就还你。
• I'm gonna pull out, I mean, back out.
  我会抽出来的，我是说推回来。
• Ever get back from running errands and realize you have to go back out because you forgot something?
  有没有试过这种情况：正要跑腿去办事又半道折回来，因为你意识到自己忘记了什么事儿不得不回去？
• I gave her a lift back out to her house
  我让她搭我的便车回家。
• 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。