vi.倒踏腳踏板；(拳擊中）后退；食言

Thursday, Artest abruptly backpedalled on his statements. 然而，阿泰在星期四突然收回了自己之前的言論。

Mrs Clinton later awkwardly backpedalled, assuring the Palestinians that she still considered all settlements “illegitimate”, while pleading with them to resume talks. 希拉里克林頓稍后尷尬的回到巴勒斯坦，向巴勒斯坦人保證，她仍然認(rèn)為這些定居點(diǎn)是非法的，同時(shí)她又懇求巴勒斯坦人能夠恢復(fù)和談。

10.Perhaps taken aback by the belated but firm Western support for Estonia, Russia has backpedalled. 俄羅斯也許是受到了愛(ài)沙尼亞晚來(lái)的且強(qiáng)硬的西方援助力量的恐嚇，他開(kāi)始退卻了。