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    climb down

    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++→ See Verb table
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    climb down• a humiliating climbdown by the government over their economic policies• Neither side in the dispute has been willing to climb down.• European Court decisions have forced several employers to climb down and change their policy on women's pay.    ˈclimb-down noun [countable usually singular] British English  an occasion when you admit that you were wrong 认错 a humiliating climb-down by the government 政府的狼狈认错
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    climb-down• Better an early climb-down in some sheltered private meeting, he argued, than a humiliation on the floor of the House.
    ˈclimb-down nounChineseSyllable
    admit that you you Corpus an when wrong were occasion


    climb down

    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++climb down  → climb down at climb1(2) to admit that you were wrong, especially after being certain that you were right
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    climb down
    climb down phrasal verb British English (see also climb)
    to admit that you were wrong, especially after being certain that you were right ⇨ climb-down