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

• We want to back out of the deal.
  我们想退出这场交易。
• You wenthome, came back out again, andthen you hid your little toy.
  你到了家，又回去了，接着又把你的小玩具藏起来了。
• 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。
• 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！
• I had to bend them back out to get the lids to fit right.
  我不得不弯回来了让盖子，以适应的权利。
• Ever get back from running errands and realize you have to go back out because you forgot something?
  有没有试过这种情况：正要跑腿去办事又半道折回来，因为你意识到自己忘记了什么事儿不得不回去？
• 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。
• 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。
• I'm gonna pull out, I mean, back out.
  我会抽出来的，我是说推回来。