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.
  1. They backed off in horror.
     他们心怀恐惧地退缩了。
• 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.
  1. 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。
  2. The union has publicly backed off that demand.
     工会已经公开撤回了那项要求。
• PHRASAL VERB 别插手；别干涉
  If you tell someone toback off, you are telling them to stop interfering.
  1. 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！

英英释义

verb

• move backwards from a certain position
  1. The bully had to back down
  Synonym:back upback down
• remove oneself from an obligation
  1. He bowed out when he heard how much work was involved
  Synonym:chicken outpull outback downbow out

双语例句

• You step up, and I'll back off.
  你带种我就闭嘴。
• You need to back off on the leverage.
  你必须降低你的杠杆。
• 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。
• I don't like that car sitting on my tail. Wave him to back off.
  我不喜欢那辆车紧靠在我的车尾，挥手示意他倒车（离远些）。
• Back off! There's no need to yell at me.
  走开点！没必要对我大喊大叫。
• 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。
• 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。
• He doesn't back off, though, when I raise the F-word.
  他没有退缩，不过，当我提出的F字。
• 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。
• Say you'll leave him if he doesn't back off.
  你说如果他不收手就离开他。