I'm not going to buckle under just because I get a few letters.

我不会因为区区几封信就打退堂鼓的。

" If you want to go back, I won't blame you, " he said.

“如果你们现在想打退堂鼓，我不会怪你们的。”

Then you gotta back away. You don't need that kind of hurt.

那就打退堂鼓 你不需要受这种伤害。

Do not wimp out on me here. We've gotta do what's best for the business.

不要在这个时候打退堂鼓。这么做也是为了我们的生意好。

Well, Daniel, I'm sorry that I backed down.

嗯 Daniel 对不起 我打退堂鼓了。

Melanie was almost crying with embarrassment, Ashley was suddenly bleak and withdrawn and Rhett was watching her over his cigar with impersonal amusement. She started to cry out: " But of course, it's made me happy" !

这时媚兰难过得快要哭了，艾希礼也突然变色，准备打退堂鼓，只有瑞德仍然拈雪茄，不动声色，很有兴趣地打量她，她大声喊起来：" 那当然喽，它是使我很快活！" 可是，不知为什么，她说不下去了。

In America government spending on universities has been flat in recent years; in Australia, even as the price of humanities degrees doubles, so it will fall for subjects the government deems good for growth.

政客们的疑虑不仅仅源于怨憎。政府投资高等教育，是要通过提升人资本来提高生产率。但在富裕国家，面是大学的蓬勃发展，面却是生产率增长放缓。许多政客怀疑大学没有在传授正确的内容，培养出的毕业生数量又超出了劳动市场的需求。难怪政府开始打退堂鼓。美国政府对大学的投入近没有增长；在澳大利亚，人文学科的学费翻了番，而那些政府认为有助于提高生产率的学科的学费还是会下降。

And they often say, " If I had known how hard it was gonna be, it probably would've put me off from starting in the first place."

“要是我早知道这么难，我可能开始就打退堂鼓了。”

" He'd say, 'This is the year, I'm getting things together, ' and then when it came time to do it, he just couldn't do it, " he said.

“他会说，‘今可以发表了，我要把切都准备好，’但事到临头，他又会打退堂鼓，”小塞林格说。

I mean, that right there, that fact alone is enough to stop a lot of people, a lot of companies from trying to do something.

我意思是，那个事实本身就已经足以让很多人和公司打退堂鼓了。

But if you're new, DOMS can catch you off guard and even scare you away from ever working out again.

但如果你是新人，DOMS 就会使你心生警惕甚至在你要再次锻炼仍会把你吓得打退堂鼓。

None of my neighbors can accuse me of being backward in doing them a kindness whenever it is possible.

没有任何位邻居指责我，说我在可能帮到他们忙时打退堂鼓。

After all you've done, you can't give up now. Please! If he doesn't receive treatment, he'll die. OK.

你做了这么多，不能现在打退堂鼓。求你了！如果不立刻治疗，他会没命的。 好吧 .

I found these stories so depressing that I gave up before even really starting down the partner track.

我发现这些故事让人心情压抑，导致我还没开始向成为合伙人的目标迈进就打退堂鼓了。

Jerry Smith from Earth didn't flinch!

地球的Jerry Smith可没有打退堂鼓！

He's kind of getting cold feet.

他有点儿打退堂鼓了。

Halfway into the birth canal and Mel had second thoughts.

梅尔进入产道半时开始打退堂鼓。

It's meant that Natalia's travel companion has started to get cold feet.

这意味娜塔莉亚的旅伴开始打退堂鼓了。

They were part of the reason that Donald Trump called his bluff off.

它们是唐纳德·特朗普叫他打退堂鼓的部分原因。

" To chicken out" is a two-word verb meaning to decide not to do something because you're too scared, because you're a coward, because you don't have courage.

“打退堂鼓”是个两个词组成的动词，意思是由于害怕、因为是懦夫、因为没有勇气而决定不去做某事。