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.
我已經爲使商業市場脫離那些橡膠-雞肉貿易的循環作出了盡我所能的承諾。
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.
馴養的佈穀的故事嚇壞了，決定“雞”，他們每年夏天露營，直到他知道狼人了。
The frozen chicken thawed out half an hour later.
凍雞半小時後解凍了。
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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.
人們希望知道食物從何而來,由誰種植的,從多遠的地方運過來,在加工過程中,在食物中添加了什麽,人們看到牛肉,豬肉或雞肉時,會想知道這些動物,都被注射了什麽,這些話題討論起來都會很有意思
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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.