cry off

英 [kraɪ ɒf]

美 [kraɪ ɔːf]

变卦; 取消诺言; 打退堂鼓

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 变卦;取消诺言;打退堂鼓
  If youcry off, you tell someone that you cannot do something that you have agreed or arranged to do.
  1. Barron invited her to the races and she agreed, but she caught flu and had to cry off at the last minute.
     她接受了巴伦一起去看比赛的邀请，但她感冒了，最后不得不取消约定。

双语例句

• It was the first affection you showed me on this visit and so it made me cry after you got off the bus to go to work.
  这是你在这次访问上显示我的第一个爱，因此在你下公共汽车去上班之后，它使我哭。
• The emotionally incontinent exhibitionists who cry when they are kicked off talent shows such as The X Factor are not grown men, for example.
  例如，当情感失禁的表现狂的天资显示出如X因素不是成熟的男人被淘汰时大哭。
• But most of us could cry with relief when we kick them off at the end of a long day.
  但大部分人在漫长的一天结束后脱下高跟鞋时都会感觉有如从痛苦中解脱一般。
• I said I would go, but had to cry off at the last moment.
  我是说过要去的，但事到临头却不得不改变了主意。
• And they cannot cry to let off their panic.
  还不能用哭来宣泄他们的恐惧。
• My house is more than two months, when babies do not eat milk, milk powder to cry, I cut off the milk, breast-fed her light, enough to eat a few days ago, less than a week had enough breast milk.
  我家宝宝也在二个多月时不吃奶粉，给奶粉就哭，我把奶粉断了，让她光吃母乳，前几天吃不饱，过不到一个星期母乳就够了。
• He tried to cry off after swearing he would do it.
  他发誓要做此事，之后又试图撒手不干了。
• He will pass by your door with his clear cry, and you shall fling open your window, cast off your veil, come out of the dusk of your dreams and meet your destiny.
  他响亮地呼唤着路过你的门前时，你便会从依稀的梦中惊醒，将窗儿洞开，抛下面纱，走出房门，去迎接命运的安排。
• Just because I don't cry, doesn't mean my heart won 't.Just because I come off strong doesn't mean there's nothing wrong.
  我不哭，并不代表我的心里没有流泪。我坚强，并不代表什么事都没有发生。
• If I cry one tear for my daddy, I stole it off a crocodile.
  我不会为我父亲掉一滴眼泪的。