chicken out

含义

to decide not to do something because you are scared

因害怕而决定不做某事.

例句

1. 1Aisha had booked a skydiving lesson, but she chickened out the night before.
2. 2Don't chicken out now; you've practised your speech for weeks.
3. 3Priya had planned to tell her boss she was leaving, but she chickened out and stayed another year.
4. 4We all signed up for the charity swim in the sea, but Tom chickened out when he felt the water.
5. 5If you chicken out now, you'll never know whether you'd have got the job.

语法

只有 chicken 变化形式：chickens、chickened、chickening。要说明放弃的活动，用 of 加名词或 -ing 形式。

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