back-pedalled

back-pedal['bæk,pedəl]

• vi.
  • (自行车刹车时)倒踩脚蹬，倒蹬
  • [美国英语]收回早先的意见，背弃早先的诺言，改变主张(或立场)，撤回，缩回，出尔反尔：

    to back-pedal after severe criticism

    遭到严厉批评之后收回早先的意见

  • [美国英语] 【拳击】向后移步，后退躲开
  • (战斗中)后撤
• 变形:

  vi.back-pedaled或-pedalled.back-pedaling或-pedalling

• attend to sb / sth
• decapitating
• call sth to mind
• unsaturation
• bottle-man
• magnetizer
• falling diphthong
• untold
• blowing pressure
• bank failure
• codfishes
• Eastern Orthodox
• advertisement
• appreciating
• equilibratory
• crummiest
• cross-dresser
• deinstitutionalization
• hymenoptera
• woolly manzanita
• blackboard jungle
• pelletized
• Bernoulli equation
• Bhave Vinoba
• hothouse
• anted或anteed
• body guy
• in-and-out
• acaroid gum
• fly about
• grain boundary
• waging
• germannesses
• come over (to…) (from…)
• Afro-Asiatic
• be all go
• disc-
• borels
• Trichuroidae
• chosen people
• brontosaurus
• pharyngoscopes
• Ferris wheels
• demonesses
• heezed
• inequitably
• geomagnetic reversal
• goozle
• vectorially
• frugivore
• quickened
• ticket agency
• fall away
• antiestrogen
• liquidity preference
• planetesimal
• to the highest (或lowest) pitch
• Angers
• dress up
• innumerables
• Brayton cycle
• tautologizes
• critical concentration
• CCRS.
• squill-like
• calydonians
• haemangiomata
• flotillas
• neurocyte
• eccentricity
• within two feet / ten years etc either way
• crush barrier
• meche blanche
• ding down
• subterraneous
• objective tester
• stagnation point
• dull fish
• cultigen
• bickies
• foster daughters
• pars tuberalis
• Senghor, Leopold Sédar
• mobed
• Barmecidal
• sleeky
• symbiotics
• you have to hand it to sb
• my （或his等） lips are sealed
• hang on to
• oxycarpous
• devastation
• demonstrate to
• rhymesters
• slippery
• dominoes
• carve-up
• physes
• cabin-class
• roiliest