单词 | pull out |
释义 | pull out 1. phrasal verb B2 When a vehicle or driver pulls out, the vehicle moves out into the road or nearer the centre of the road. She pulled out into the street. [VERB PARTICLE preposition] He was about to pull out to overtake the guy in front of him. [VERB PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb If you pull out of an agreement, a contest, or an organization, you withdraw from it. The World Bank should pull out of the project. [VERB PARTICLE + of] The airline was on the verge of collapse last night after a rescue consortium pulled out of takeover talks. [V P of n] Murray was forced to pull out on the eve of the tournament due to a wrist injury. [VERB PARTICLE] 3. phrasal verb If troops pull out of a place or if their leader pulls them out, they leave it. The troops prepared to pull out of a country in terrible disrepair but hopeful for the future. [VERB PARTICLE + of] Economic sanctions will be lifted once two-thirds of their forces have pulled out. [VERB PARTICLE] The regime would defy a call from the United Nations to pull its troops out of the cities it had occupied. [VERB noun PARTICLE + of] 4. phrasal verb If a country pulls out of recession or if someone pulls it out, it begins to recover from it. Sterling has been hit by the economy's failure to pull out of recession. [VERB PARTICLE + of] What we want to see today are policies to pull us out of this recession. [VERB noun PARTICLE + of] 5. See also pull-out See full dictionary entry for pull pull-out Word forms: pull-outs 1. countable noun [usually NOUN noun] In a newspaper or magazine, a pull-out is a section which you can remove easily and keep. ...an eight-page pull-out supplement. 2. singular noun When there is a pull-out of armed forces from a place, troops which have occupied an area of land withdraw from it. ...a pull-out from the occupied territories. [+ from/of] The pull-out of the army paves the way for independence. Translations: Chinese: 离开 Japanese: 車線から出る |
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