cry off

英 [kraɪ ɒf]

美 [kraɪ ɔːf]

变卦; 取消诺言; 打退堂鼓

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 变卦;取消诺言;打退堂鼓
  If youcry off, you tell someone that you cannot do something that you have agreed or arranged to do.
  1. Barron invited her to the races and she agreed, but she caught flu and had to cry off at the last minute.
     她接受了巴伦一起去看比赛的邀请，但她感冒了，最后不得不取消约定。

双语例句

• I said I would go, but had to cry off at the last moment.
  我是说过要去的，但事到临头却不得不改变了主意。
• We can cry and get off speeding fines.
  眼泪可以免除超速罚单。
• If I cry one tear for my daddy, I stole it off a crocodile.
  我不会为我父亲掉一滴眼泪的。
• My house is more than two months, when babies do not eat milk, milk powder to cry, I cut off the milk, breast-fed her light, enough to eat a few days ago, less than a week had enough breast milk.
  我家宝宝也在二个多月时不吃奶粉，给奶粉就哭，我把奶粉断了，让她光吃母乳，前几天吃不饱，过不到一个星期母乳就够了。
• But most of us could cry with relief when we kick them off at the end of a long day.
  但大部分人在漫长的一天结束后脱下高跟鞋时都会感觉有如从痛苦中解脱一般。
• Sometimes the energy release of a good laugh, or a good cry, can also take the edge off.
  有时候，一声大笑、大哭来释放能量也可以缓解危急。
• It was the first affection you showed me on this visit and so it made me cry after you got off the bus to go to work.
  这是你在这次访问上显示我的第一个爱，因此在你下公共汽车去上班之后，它使我哭。
• He tried to cry off after swearing he would do it.
  他发誓要做此事，之后又试图撒手不干了。
• In the worst days of preparation for the exam, I waked up by nightmare and fell into cry, but after that I had to wipe off tears and go to classroom for daily study.
  最恐怖的时候，每天凌晨会哭醒，然后继续掉一会眼泪，然后爬起来去教室看书、复习。
• Barron invited her to the races and she agreed, but she caught flu and had to cry off at the last minute.
  她接受了巴伦一起去看比赛的邀请，但她感冒了，最后不得不取消约定。