backpedal

backpedal

美 [?bæk?ped(?)l] 　英 [?bæk?ped(?)l]

• v.倒踏腳踏板；(拳擊)向后躲閃；變卦
• 網絡后退；向后行；腳煞車

詞形變化

第三人稱單數：backpedals  現在分詞：backpedaling  現在分詞：backpedalling  過去式：backpedaled  過去式：backpedalled  

同義詞

英漢解釋

v.	1. 倒踏腳踏板;(拳擊)向后躲閃;變卦,收回意見[立場,主張]

英英解釋

v.	1. to show that you are no longer certain about a previous opinion, intention, or promise 2. to pedal backward on a bicycle

例句

But when human rights groups complained, as a haunting video of the hanging was circulated on the internet, he appeared to backpedal.

但當令人難以忘懷的絞刑視頻在互聯網上流傳，從而招致人權組織的抱怨時，潘基文似乎有些退卻。

You don't have to backpedal; you don't have to become homeless; you don't have to go into debt; you don't have to go into poverty.

你沒有必要后退；沒有必要變成無家可歸的人；沒有必要跌進債務中，沒有必要掉進貧困中。

She later sought to backpedal by insisting that the settlements remained "illegitimate" .

隨后，為了給自己尋求退路，她又強調定居點仍然是“非法的”。

Some local governments are starting to backpedal on some property tightening measures Beijing has imposed.

一些地方政府正準備放寬一些中央實施的房地產調控措施。

The more important is, don't be frightened by him, you should insist on, sometimes the last backpedal will be the counterpart.

更重要的是，你不要被嚇倒，而是堅持下去，往往最后退縮的是對方。

Look closer, though, and it becomes clear that Mr Obama is signalling that he may soon backpedal in various ways.

然而仔細看一下，很明顯奧巴馬先生正傳遞著這樣的信息：他可能會馬上變卦而這樣做的途徑有很多。