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

• When she came back out the car was gone.
  然而，当她回来时汽车竟不见了。
• 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。
• 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。
• He shoved me back out of the room.
  他把我从房间里推了出来。
• 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。
• I'm gonna pull out, I mean, back out.
  我会抽出来的，我是说推回来。
• 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 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。
• You know you can still back out of it, right?
  你知道你还是可以取消的，对吧？
• 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！