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

  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.

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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