【backpedal】 - A-level备考词汇

backpedal

UK:  ['bæk.ped(ə)l]

US:  ['bæk.ped(ə)l]

第三人称单数：backpedals  现在分词：backpedaling  过去式：backpedaled  现在分词：backpedalling  过去分词：backpedalled  

v.

1.倒踏脚踏板;(拳击)向后躲闪;变卦,收回意见[立场、主张]

2.后退

1 . But when human rights groups complained, as a haunting video of the hanging was circulated on the internet, he appeared to backpedal.
但当令人难以忘怀的绞刑视频在互联网上流传，从而招致人权组织的抱怨时，潘基文似乎有些退却。

2 . 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.
你没有必要后退；没有必要变成无家可归的人；没有必要跌进债务中，没有必要掉进贫困中。

3 . She later sought to backpedal by insisting that the settlements remained "illegitimate" .
随后，为了给自己寻求退路，她又强调定居点仍然是“非法的”。

4 . Some local governments are starting to backpedal on some property tightening measures Beijing has imposed.
一些地方政府正准备放宽一些中央实施的房地产调控措施。

5 . 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，你不要被吓倒，而是坚持下去，往往最后退缩的是对方。