The phrasal verb chicken out has a similar meaning.

动词短语chicken out（临阵退缩）也有着类似的意思。

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

如果你临阵退缩，你决定不去做某事因为你害怕。

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

他想要爬到顶端，但最终退缩了。

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。。

I'm gonna get some of that chicken out.

我去弄点鸡肉出来。

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

就在我的间结束之前，我想我最好把鸡拿出来。

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

哦，我们有会让鸡自由活动。

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

对，怕了就赶紧。我不想因为有人临阵退缩误了事。卡罗琳你呢？

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。

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，否则我会临阵脱逃的。

I'm scared to death, but I'm not going to chicken out.

我吓得要死，但我不会退缩的。

I couldn't chicken out in front of all the guys.

我不能在所有伙伴面前临阵退缩。

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

就像，好吧，我不会是那个在一分钟内就退缩的人。

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。

Taking boxes of chicken out of the storage fridge.

从冷藏室里拿走了几盒鸡。

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。

You can't take chicken out of chicken enchiladas.

你不能把鸡肉从鸡肉馅玉米卷饼挑出来。

Sweetie, what are you doing? - Taking the chicken out.

亲爱的 你在做什么 -把鸡肉挑出来。

The following month, Wall Street had a name for this phenomenon, taco, i.e., Trump always chickens out.

次月，华尔街给这一现象起了个名字， 叫“玉米卷”，意指特朗普总是临阵退缩。