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

• 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？
• You know you can still back out of it, right?
  你知道你还是可以取消的，对吧？
• 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。
• 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。
• When she came back out the car was gone.
  然而，当她回来时汽车竟不见了。
• 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。
• We want to back out of the deal.
  我们想退出这场交易。
• I'm gonna pull out, I mean, back out.
  我会抽出来的，我是说推回来。
• 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。