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back down
phrasal verb with backverbuk /bæk/ us /bæk/
to admit that you were wrong or that you have been defeated: 认错;认输;打退堂鼓
Eventually, Roberto backed down and apologized.最后，罗伯托认错并道了歉。
Local residents have forced the local council to back down from its plans to build a nightclub on their street.当地居民迫使地方议会放弃了在他们住的大街上建夜总会的计划。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Admitting & confessing
acknowledge something as something
acknowledgedly
acknowledgment
admission of guilt
admittedly
avowedly
breastbeating
clean
climb down
come cleanidiom
confess
hold/put your hands upidiom
retraction
self-admittedly
self-confessed
self-confessedly
self-confession
stand
swallow your wordsidiom
take something back
back down | American Dictionary
back down
phrasal verb with backverbus/bæk/
(alsoback off)
to admit you were wrong, or to stop supporting a position
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