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

• I gave her a lift back out to her house
  我让她搭我的便车回家。
• I'm gonna pull out, I mean, back out.
  我会抽出来的，我是说推回来。
• 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？
• Once you've given your word, don't try to back out.
  一旦许下诺言，就不要想翻悔。
• But I have to go back out there!
  但我要回那里去！
• 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。
• 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。
• You know you can still back out of it, right?
  你知道你还是可以取消的，对吧？
• 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。
• 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。