chicken out
/ˌtʃɪkɪn ˈaʊt/SLANG · C2
中文對應近似對應
打退堂鼓
字面意思: «變成膽小的雞»
意思
to decide not to do something because you are scared
因害怕而決定不做某事.
例句
- 1Aisha had booked a skydiving lesson, but she chickened out the night before.
- 2Don't chicken out now; you've practised your speech for weeks.
- 3Priya had planned to tell her boss she was leaving, but she chickened out and stayed another year.
- 4We all signed up for the charity swim in the sea, but Tom chickened out when he felt the water.
- 5If you chicken out now, you'll never know whether you'd have got the job.
文法
只有 chicken 變化形式:chickens、chickened、chickening。要說明放棄的活動,用 of 加名詞或 -ing 形式。
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