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。

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

There would be pressure on the dollar, as investors back away from buying Treasury debt.
这将对美元构成压力，因为投资者将不再购买美国国债。
Back away from the door.
退后，离门远点。
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。
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。
He refused to back away from his position.
他拒绝放弃自己的立场。
"I'll back away," he said.
“我给你空间，”他答。
And if we back away, if we give up on it, if we show any signs of retreat at all, then the enemy we face worldwide will be strengthened.
如果我们退出，如果我们放弃，如果我们表现出任何撤退的迹象，那么我们所面临的敌人将会强大起来。
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。
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。