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 stood in the driveway and watched him back out and pull away.
  我站在车道上，看着他把车倒出来然后开走。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• You wouldn't lose. I'd pay you back out of next year's cotton.
  你不会赔的。明年棉花收了就还你。
• You know you can still back out of it, right?
  你知道你还是可以取消的，对吧？