| 词汇 | back out |
| 释义 | back outback out phrasal verbphr v PROMISEto decide not to do something that you had promised to do 变卦，打退堂鼓；食言 It’s too late to back out now. 现在反悔已经太晚了。 After you’ve signed the contract, it will be impossible to back out. 签好合同之后你就不可以变卦了。 of The government is trying to back out of its commitment to reduce pollution. 政府当初承诺减少污染，可现在又想打退堂鼓。 Examples from the Corpus back of• Fitzsimmons said the Pistons backed out of both deals.• First, by minimizing conversion capital costs while backing out of expensive oil we conserve both capital and consumer resources.• By simply backing out of public provision, governments turn services over to the private market.• The king of Sicily backed out of the arrangement.• I backed out of the bathroom and closed the door.• The airline backed out of the deal.• Moscow had backed out of the deal.• I almost backed out of the race yesterday.• Tony got up and backed out of the room. → back out at back3(PHRASAL VERB) |
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