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。
• I'm gonna pull out, I mean, back out.
  我会抽出来的，我是说推回来。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 could pay you back out of my lifeguard salary.
  我可以从我当救生员的钱里拿出来还你。
• 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。
• 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。
• "you won't back out?" she said.
  “你不会食言吧？”她说。
• 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。