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chick.en out5tIk7Inv adv [I] slang disapproving If you chicken out of (doing) something, you decide not to do it because you are too frightened.因害怕而不做某事I was going to go bungee jumping, but I chickened out.我本打算去玩蹦极跳，可是因为害怕没跳。A group of us went hang-gliding, but a couple of people chickened out of (doing) it at the last minute.我们一群人去玩风筝式滑翔运动，可有几个人在最后一刻因害怕没有参加。
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