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 gave her a lift back out to her house
  我让她搭我的便车回家。
• Let's fix me up and get me back out there.
  把我治好让我继续。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I'm gonna pull out, I mean, back out.
  我会抽出来的，我是说推回来。
• 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。
• Besides, she had already made a date with a friend, so how could she back out now?
  况且已经和人家约好了的，可怎么办！