back off
英 [bæk ɒf]
美 [bæk ɔːf]
（为避免问题或冲突而）后退，避让，退缩; 放弃，收回（主张、要求、承诺等）
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB （为避免问题或冲突而）后退，避让，退缩
If youback off, you move away in order to avoid problems or a fight.- They backed off in horror.
他们心怀恐惧地退缩了。
- They backed off in horror.
- PHRASAL VERB 放弃，收回（主张、要求、承诺等）
If youback off froma claim, demand, or commitment that you made earlier, or if youback offit, you withdraw it.- A spokesman says the president has backed off from his threat to boycott the conference...
一位发言人表示总统已经收回了他将抵制这次会议的威胁。 - The union has publicly backed off that demand.
工会已经公开撤回了那项要求。
- A spokesman says the president has backed off from his threat to boycott the conference...
- PHRASAL VERB 别插手；别干涉
If you tell someone toback off, you are telling them to stop interfering.- Back off, Mom, I'm old enough to make my own decisions!
你别管，妈妈，我已经能够自己作决定了！
- Back off, Mom, I'm old enough to make my own decisions!
英英释义
verb
- move backwards from a certain position
- The bully had to back down
- remove oneself from an obligation
- He bowed out when he heard how much work was involved
双语例句
- You have to know your audience and when to back off.
你必须了解自己的听众，知道自己什么时候该放弃。 - Back off, slick. you'll scare the deer.
退后，你会吓着鹿儿的。 - Back off, action bunnies, or I'll kill this kid.
兔别行动组，不准过来。不然我就杀了这孩子。 - If I have to tell you again to back off, we're gonna go'round and'round.
如果我不得不再次要你作出让步，我们就会没完没了了。 - Back off! There's no need to yell at me.
走开点！没必要对我大喊大叫。 - Everywhere I turned, people told me to back off, get lost.
我查到的每一个地方，人们都告诉我不要查了。 - I removed the last of the screws and took the back off the machine.
我卸掉最后一个螺丝，把背板从机器上拆了下来。 - Back off, Mom, I'm old enough to make my own decisions!
你别管，妈妈，我已经能够自己作决定了！ - But after they told his mother the news, she seemed to back off.
但在他们将这一决定告诉母亲后，她似乎让步了。 - That's why your father backed off, and that's why you'll back off.
这正是你爸爸后退的原因，也是你后退的原因。