英:[ˈtʃikin aut]
美:[ˈtʃɪkən aʊt]
英:[ˈtʃikin aut]
美:[ˈtʃɪkən aʊt]
临阵退缩;
phrase
(informal) to refrain from doing an intended thing because of fear; to lose one's courage to do something.He was planning to join the protest, but he chickened out at the last minute.
1 Many people drew back out of fear.
许多人都因为害怕而退缩了。
2 I know at that crucial moment I'd cop out.
我知道在那种生死关头我会退缩的。
3 His mother complains that he makes excuses to chicken out of family occasions such as weddings.
他妈妈抱怨他找借口躲避家庭聚会,如婚礼之类的。
4 I had never ridden on a motor-cycle before. But it was too late to chicken out.
那以前我从没骑过摩托车。不过,想退缩已经来不及了。
5 Jim was going to skydive, but chickened out when he got on the plane. ( chicken out )
吉姆本来要玩跳伞, 但是在上了飞机后却临阵退缩.
6 Don't chicken out, Xiao Jun.
别想溜走, 小军.
7 Never chicken out when you make up your mind.
决心已定,决不言弃.
8 Leave the chicken out overnight to thaw it out.
把这只鸡在外放一晚上就解冻了.
9 Unfortunately, many people chicken out at the last moment.
不幸的是, 很多人都在最后时刻临阵退缩.
10 Did you take the chicken out of the oven yet?
你把鸡从烤箱拿出来了 吗 ?
11 Now, some of you boys, I know, are wondering whether or not you'll chicken - out under fire.
现在, 你们这些小伙子们, 我知道, 都在考虑你们是否会临阵脱逃.
12 I was afraid if Mom answered that I chicken out and tell her instead.
怯懦假若回声开门的是,我会因恐惊而对她说出那几何个字.
13 Edison run out after his mother told him how will the chicken out of the shell.
爱迪生听了妈妈的话,就跑开了,爱迪生上哪儿去了?
14 I was afraid if Mom answered that I would chicken out tell her instead.
害怕如果应声开门的是母亲,我会因胆怯而对她说出那几个字.
15 Given this tension, it is no wonder that some people chicken out entirely.
鉴于这种紧张关系, 无怪乎有些人会因胆怯而彻底放弃欢送会.
16 Often she will chicken out – she will not out alone at night.
她经常会退缩(chickenout)--在夜里不会单独出去.
17 That girl smiled at you. Don't chicken out, go and ask for her phone number.
那个女孩朝你微笑了. 别退缩, 过去要她的电话号码吧.
1 胆怯
chicken yellow nervous timid craven intimidated faint-hearted diffident chickenshit timorous pusillanimous lily-livered quail daunt overawe chicken out of doing chicken out of of doing
3 放弃
retreat resignation lose drop yield quit compromise abandon scrap surrender resign waive relinquish forsake forgo eschew cede jettison abnegate give up the ghost bottle it give up as a bad job kiss goodbye chuck in get out of give up back off throw up part with go without bail out pass up grow out of jack in