back away

英 [bæk əˈweɪ]

美 [bæk əˈweɪ]

后退; 放弃; 退出; （常因害怕等而）后退，退缩

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 放弃；退出
  If youback away froma commitment that you made or something that you were involved with in the past, you try to show that you are no longer committed to it or involved with it.
  1. The company backed away from plans to cut their pay by 15%...
     公司放弃了给他们降薪15%的计划。
  2. He's backing away from the policies and style of his predecessor...
     他正脱离其前任的政策和风格。
  3. Until yesterday, Britain had backed away because it didn't like the cost.
     直到昨天，英国还因为成本太高而却步。
• PHRASAL VERB （常因害怕等而）后退，退缩
  If youback away, you walk backwards away from someone or something, often because you are frightened of them.
  1. James got to his feet and started to come over, but the girls hastily backed away.
     詹姆斯起身走过来，但是女孩子们却连忙后退。

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 outcrawfishcrawfish outpull in one's hornswithdraw

双语例句

• Unfortunately there are no simple formulas for when to back away from application level transactions.
  遗憾的是，对于何时应当放弃应用级事务并没有简单的规则。
• They would clap when they saw me and then back away cautiously.
  他们看到我时会鼓掌，然后再小心翼翼地退后。
• If an email conversation starts out well but then you realise this person isn't'the one'then politely back away.
  如果最初的邮件往来很好，后来却发现对方不是想要的那个“真命天子”，你大可礼貌地终止这种交流。
• He's backing away from the policies and style of his predecessor
  他正脱离其前任的政策和风格。
• And if we back away, if we give up on it, if we show any signs of retreat at all, then the enemy we face worldwide will be strengthened.
  如果我们退出，如果我们放弃，如果我们表现出任何撤退的迹象，那么我们所面临的敌人将会强大起来。
• He refused to back away from his position.
  他拒绝放弃自己的立场。
• All right, now just back away from him.
  好的，现在，呃，往后退。
• China will continue its policy of opening to the outside world on a broader scale, rather than back away from it.
  我国的开放政策不是收，而是要继续放。
• Piggy was surrounded before he could back away. I graduated from Hunan University.
  猪崽子没来得及脱身就给团团围住了。我从湖南大学毕业。
• They changed the way we fought war& caused us to back away from trench warfare.
  以往的发明也曾改变过我们进行战争的方式，使我们远离了堑壕战。