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

• If you know the crowd is planning something you disagree with, have the courage to bow out politely.
  如果你知道大家正在计划一件你不赞成的事情，鼓起勇气礼貌地退出。
• Is it now time for the company to bow out of its chipset business, too?
  那么，该公司现在退出芯片业务是否正当其时呢？
• Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the lord.
  他们弯起舌头像弓一样，为要说谎话。他们在国中增长势力，不是为行诚实，乃是恶上加恶，并不认识我。这是耶和华说的。
• 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。
• He wouldn't offer to bow out.
  他并没有退出之意。
• 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。
• Research by the University of California in San Francisco found people with difficulty saying no are more likely to experience stress. While unpleasant, sometimes the healthiest thing you can do is bow out gracefully and avoid overextending yourself.
  位于旧金山的加利福尼亚大学发表的研究表明，拒绝更容易带来紧张。虽然拒绝别人不是件愉快的事情，但有时最健康的做法就是礼貌地回绝，避免操劳过度。
• Arguments about politics and religion never have a right answer but they definitely get people all riled up over things they can't control. When such topics surface, bow out by saying something like: Thinking about that stuff makes my head hurt.
  有关政治和宗教的话题永远没有正确答案，但却会让人心浮气躁，难以掌控谈话的局面。如果出现了这样的话题，就可以用一句想到这些事情我就头疼，礼貌地退出讨论。
• Mr. Smith held different views form his partners, finally he had to bow out of the Company management.
  史密斯先生与同我人意见不一致，最后不得已退出了公司管理层。
• The appraisal right is the statutory right of corporate shareholders who oppose fundamental changes of the corporate to have their shares judicially appraised and demand that the corporation buy back their shares at the appraised value, and then to bow out of the corporation.
  异议股东股份评估权是指对公司基础性变化持异议的股东请求公司以公平合理的评估价格买回其股份，从而退出公司的法定权利。