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 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。
• "you won't back out?" she said.
  “你不会食言吧？”她说。
• Fortunately, we never had to initiate a back out during any storage migration.
  所幸的是我们根本无需在任何存储迁移中开始一个backout。
• I gave her a lift back out to her house
  我让她搭我的便车回家。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。
• We want to back out of the deal.
  我们想退出这场交易。
• You know you can still back out of it, right?
  你知道你还是可以取消的，对吧？
• 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。