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

• Haw just shook his head in disappointment and reluctantly went back out on his own.
  唧唧失望地摇了摇头，不情愿地一个人踏上了自己的旅程。
• 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。
• 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。
• She could not, in good conscience, back out on her deal with him.
  凭良心她不能背弃与他达成的协议。
• 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。
• We drove into a dead end and had to back out.
  我们把车子开进了一条死胡同，只得退出来。
• When she came back out the car was gone.
  然而，当她回来时汽车竟不见了。
• We want to back out of the deal.
  我们想退出这场交易。
• "you won't back out?" she said.
  “你不会食言吧？”她说。
• 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。