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

• We can cry and get off speeding fines.
  眼泪可以免除超速罚单。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• And they cannot cry to let off their panic.
  还不能用哭来宣泄他们的恐惧。
• In1999, Swank was chosen for Boys Don't Cry, and the month she spent living as a boy ( as her own fictional brother, James) before the filming paid off.
  1999年，斯万卡被选中饰演《男孩不哭》。在电影开拍前的一个月，她像男孩一样生活了一个月（想象她是自己的兄弟，詹姆斯），电影开拍后获得了成功。
• 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。
• The distant cry trailed off.
  远处传来的喊声逐渐地消失了。
• 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。
• 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。