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

• 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。
• Were he now to back away from his UN bid, his clout among his own people would shrivel.
  如果他现在在联合国的入联申请中逐步后退，他在他自己人民当中的声望将会急剧下降。
• 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。
• It's ok. you've got to back away.
  没事了，你必须退后。
• Now this is going back away beyond your memories of Atlantis or Lemuria.
  现在这是追溯到亚特兰提斯或者利莫里亚记忆。
• But hotels keep going up& now in a second row, back away from the beach.
  此后，新的酒店依然层出不穷&只是如今都排在了第二梯队，不能紧挨着海滩了。
• 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。
• All right, now just back away from him.
  好的，现在，呃，往后退。
• The boy was a bad actor and everybody tried to back away from him.
  那小子是个坏家伙，大家都躲着他。
• The American may feel uncomfortable and back away.
  美国人会觉得不舒服而往后退。