chicken out

英 [ˈtʃɪkɪn aʊt]

美 [ˈtʃɪkɪn aʊt]

（由于害怕）退出，临阵退缩

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB (由于害怕)退出，临阵退缩
  If someonechickens out ofsomething they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid.
  1. 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。
  2. I had never ridden on a motorcycle 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。

英英释义

verb

• remove oneself from an obligation
  1. He bowed out when he heard how much work was involved
  Synonym:back offpull outback downbow out

双语例句

• For a better understanding of molecular mechanism of myostatin function in embryogenesis and skeletal muscle development in vivo, chicken is selected as the study object in this experiment. Primary studies on chicken myostatin were carried out in vivo and in vitro, respectively.
  为进一步研究myostatin基因在胚胎发生和体内骨骼肌发育中的功能作用和机制，本研究以鸡为研究对象，分别在体外和体内对myostatin进行了功能研究和结构分析，获得了较好的实验结果。
• The result, dog licking a bit of chicken ass, fox gas passed out.
  结果呢，小狗舔了一下鸡屁股，狐狸气昏倒了。
• Goal setting is like the pig and the chicken who went out for a walk in the town.
  设定目标有如结伴到镇上转悠的猪和鸡。
• I had never ridden on a motorcycle 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。
• But Griz stuck his paw into his food pail, where he grabbed a piece of chicken out of the bucket and threw it toward the starving kitten.
  可是灰熊却把爪子伸进了食桶，抓出一块鸡肉，朝饥肠辘辘的小猫扔去。
• Mei-yu: You've been saying that for weeks. Don't be chicken. Ask her out!
  美玉：你已经这麽讲了几个礼拜了。不要这麽胆小。约她出去啊！
• 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。
• Only is a coward chicken out.
  你是个滥用力量的胆小鬼。
• A comparative determination of true metabolizable energy ( TME) of corn, beans and bran meals of 18 kinds of plant feedstuffs for chicken and duck was carried out with 36 Avain broilers and 36 Tianfu meat-type ducks by modified Sibbald "TME" method.
  试验选用7周龄肉鸡肉鸭各36只，以SibbaldTME法比较测定了肉鸡和肉鸭谷物、饼粕和糠麸等3大类18种常用植物饲料的TME。
• I'm afraid he'll chicken out when we really start to do it.
  我担心在我们真动手干的时候他会害怕而退出。