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'm going back out into the jungle to talk to our friend with the beard.
  我打算回丛林和我们那位长胡子的朋友谈谈。
• Why don't you come back out? It'd mean a lot to me.
  你为什么不回来？那对我很有意义。
• 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！
• 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 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。
• But I have to go back out there!
  但我要回那里去！
• 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。
• 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。