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。
• 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。
• 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！
• "you won't back out?" she said.
  “你不会食言吧？”她说。
• I gave her a lift back out to her house
  我让她搭我的便车回家。
• 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。
• He shoved me back out of the room.
  他把我从房间里推了出来。
• Once you've given your word, don't try to back out.
  一旦许下诺言，就不要想翻悔。
• You know you can still back out of it, right?
  你知道你还是可以取消的，对吧？
• I'm gonna pull out, I mean, back out.
  我会抽出来的，我是说推回来。