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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 |