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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I gave her a lift back out to her house
  我让她搭我的便车回家。
• "you won't back out?" she said.
  “你不会食言吧？”她说。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• You know you can still back out of it, right?
  你知道你还是可以取消的，对吧？