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'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。
• But I have to go back out there!
  但我要回那里去！
• 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。
• Once you've given your word, don't try to back out.
  一旦许下诺言，就不要想翻悔。
• 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！
• 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。
• 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。
• When she came back out the car was gone.
  然而，当她回来时汽车竟不见了。
• 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。
• 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。