The phrasal verb chicken out has a similar meaning.

动词短语chicken out（临阵缩）也有着类似的意思。

He thinks about going all the way to the top, but chickens out.

他想要爬到顶端，但最终缩了。

Well, if you two are going to chicken out, fine, she said.

好吧，如果你们害怕了，想临阵脱逃，那也没什么。她说。

Often she will " chicken out" -- she will not go out alone at night.

她经常临阵缩，不独自出去。

Oh, well, we let our chickens out to roam freely sometimes.

哦，我们有时让鸡自由活动。

My recommendation, Baz, would be to take the chicken out of the fryer a couple minutes early and then into the microwave. - Just give it a little boost.

巴兹，我的建议是，提前几分钟把鸡肉油炸锅拿出来，然后放进微波炉。- 只要稍微加热一下。

For example, she is too chicken-livered to walk down a dark street alone at night. Often she will chicken out. She will not go out alone at night.

例如，她胆子小到不敢独自在漆黑的街上走。她很缩。她不在单独出门。

I wanna age gracefully on the wall, like a mountain goat, not like some old worn out chicken tumbling down like a fool.

我想像山羊一样优雅地在墙上变老，而不像一些疲惫的鸡像傻瓜一样滚下来。

It's not so hard to get one chicken out of here or even two but this is about all of us.

一只甚至俩只鸡出去并不难，但我们全要出去。

Because I-I-I didn't want to because I had to do it now or else I was gonna chicken out.

因为我不想这样，我想现在就做，否则我临阵脱逃的。

Do what? Chicken out. We're-we're so afraid of getting into trouble that we never do anything wrong.

怎么怂了? 畏畏缩缩，害怕自找麻烦，才一直循规蹈矩。

If you chicken out, you decide not to do something because you are too scared.

如果你临阵缩，你决定不去做某事因为你害怕。

Just before my time finished, I thought I'd better get the chicken out.

就在我的时间结束之前，我想我最好把鸡拿出来。

Yeah, cold feet speak now. I don't want this going wrong because someone chickens out. Caroline?

对，怕了就赶紧说。我不想因为有人临阵缩误了事。卡罗琳你呢？

I'm gonna get some of that chicken out.

我去弄点鸡肉出来。

Like, okay, I'm not going to be the one who chickens out at a minute.

就像，好吧，我不是那个在一分钟内就缩的人。

" 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.

“打堂鼓”是一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。

Taking boxes of chicken out of the storage fridge.

冷藏室拿走了几盒鸡。

Come on, and bring that bucket of chicken out of there.

开门 把那桶炸鸡也拿出来。

Or else I was gonna chicken out.

要不然我就怯场了。