bow out

英 [baʊ aʊt]

美 [baʊ aʊt]

退出

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 退出
  If youbow outof something, you stop taking part in it.
  1. He had bowed out gracefully when his successor had been appointed.
     他在继任者被任命后体面地引退了。

英英释义

verb

• retire gracefully
  1. He bowed out when he realized he could no longer handle the demands of the chairmanship
  Synonym:withdraw
• remove oneself from an obligation
  1. He bowed out when he heard how much work was involved
  Synonym:chicken outback offpull outback down

双语例句

• The current season of Raising Hope will be its last one, FOX announced. The network says the comedy will bow out with a one-hour series finale on April 4.
  现在正在播出的《家有喜旺》第四季将会是该剧的最后一季了。FOX宣布，砍掉这部正喜剧，并且将在4月4日播出的最后一集制作成1小时的特别集。
• When leaving the presence of the princess, you have to bow yourself out as you go.
  辞别公主时，你必须躬身退出。
• The old leader decided to bow out.
  那个老领导决定退出。
• He wouldn't offer to bow out.
  他并没有退出之意。
• We will never bow down to an idol made out of a block of wood.
  我们不会对用木头造的偶象鞠躬。
• The World Cup's toughest security headache may be a surprise visit by President Barack Obama, South Africa's police chief said Friday, joking that he secretly hoped the US side would bow out early.
  南非警察部门负责人于上周五表示，世界杯最艰巨的安保任务可能会是美国总统贝拉克奥巴马的突然来访，他开玩笑说自己暗暗希望美国队能早早淘汰。
• It's child's play: look, my left hand fingers the strings, my right hand scrapes away at them with the bow, and out comes a merry noise, tralala.
  这是小孩子的玩意，看，我左手指按着琴弦，我右手指拉着琴弓，美妙的音乐就出来了。
• Back in the bow he laid the two fillets of fish out on the wood with the flying fish beside them.
  回到船头后，他把两爿鱼肉摊在船板上，旁边搁着飞鱼。
• They bow in silence, then move out a side door across a dark courtyard and into a smaller temple, barely lit by one oil lamp and perfumed with incense. I follow them.
  她们静静地鞠躬，而后从侧门穿过黑暗的庭院，走进小寺庙，庙里只点一盏煤油灯，薰香弥漫。
• This paper elaborates from a cultural perspective bow these characteristics were evolved into new shape out of the native culture while extensively assimilating alien culture.
  本文从文化角度阐述了白族建筑特色怎样植根于本土文化沃土，广泛吸收外来文化并经创新而形成。