cry off

英 [kraɪ ɒf]

美 [kraɪ ɔːf]

变卦; 取消诺言; 打退堂鼓

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 变卦;取消诺言;打退堂鼓
  If youcry off, you tell someone that you cannot do something that you have agreed or arranged to do.
  1. Barron invited her to the races and she agreed, but she caught flu and had to cry off at the last minute.
     她接受了巴伦一起去看比赛的邀请，但她感冒了，最后不得不取消约定。

双语例句

• My house is more than two months, when babies do not eat milk, milk powder to cry, I cut off the milk, breast-fed her light, enough to eat a few days ago, less than a week had enough breast milk.
  我家宝宝也在二个多月时不吃奶粉，给奶粉就哭，我把奶粉断了，让她光吃母乳，前几天吃不饱，过不到一个星期母乳就够了。
• And they cannot cry to let off their panic.
  还不能用哭来宣泄他们的恐惧。
• In the worst days of preparation for the exam, I waked up by nightmare and fell into cry, but after that I had to wipe off tears and go to classroom for daily study.
  最恐怖的时候，每天凌晨会哭醒，然后继续掉一会眼泪，然后爬起来去教室看书、复习。
• Barron invited her to the races and she agreed, but she caught flu and had to cry off at the last minute.
  她接受了巴伦一起去看比赛的邀请，但她感冒了，最后不得不取消约定。
• He tried to cry off after swearing he would do it.
  他发誓要做此事，之后又试图撒手不干了。
• I said I would go, but had to cry off at the last moment.
  我是说过要去的，但事到临头却不得不改变了主意。
• In1999, Swank was chosen for Boys Don't Cry, and the month she spent living as a boy ( as her own fictional brother, James) before the filming paid off.
  1999年，斯万卡被选中饰演《男孩不哭》。在电影开拍前的一个月，她像男孩一样生活了一个月（想象她是自己的兄弟，詹姆斯），电影开拍后获得了成功。
• The distant cry trailed off.
  远处传来的喊声逐渐地消失了。
• The hue and cry going off to the Hulks, and people coming thence to examine the iron, Joe's opinion was corroborated.
  这件事情追问到监狱船上，他们派人来检查，认为乔的判断是千真万确的。
• It was the first affection you showed me on this visit and so it made me cry after you got off the bus to go to work.
  这是你在这次访问上显示我的第一个爱，因此在你下公共汽车去上班之后，它使我哭。