chicken out

基本解释

I have been committed to doing everything I can do (within reason) to put the rubber-chicken circuit out of business.
我已经为使商业市场脱离那些橡胶-鸡肉贸易的循环作出了尽我所能的承诺。
Domesticated Boog is terrified by the story and decides to "chicken out" of their annual summer camping trip until he knows the werewolf is gone.
驯养的布谷的故事吓坏了，决定“鸡”，他们每年夏天露营，直到他知道狼人了。
The frozen chicken thawed out half an hour later.
冻鸡半小时后解冻了。
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Often she will chicken out - she will not go out alone at night.
They want to know where it comes from, who grew it in some cases, how many miles it got transported, what was put on the food as it was being produced, what was given to the animals or injected into them as the beef was coming out, or the pork, or the chicken and these will be very interesting topics to discuss.
人们希望知道食物从何而来,由谁种植的,从多远的地方运过来,在加工过程中,在食物中添加了什么,人们看到牛肉,猪肉或鸡肉时,会想知道这些动物,都被注射了什么,这些话题讨论起来都会很有意思
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The head cook,or chef, of a restaurant will tell the head server that the kitchen is out of chicken soup,for example.

Or will they chicken out and concoct some milquetoast settlement that lets the King skate free?
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If someone chickens out of something they were intending to do, they decide not to do it because they are afraid.