VERB
改變立場；軟化；退縮
If you back-pedal, you express a different or less forceful opinion about something from the one you have previously expressed.
例句
Allen back-pedalled, saying that he had had no intention of offending them...
艾倫退縮了，說他無意冒犯他們。
He appeared to back-pedal on that statement.
他看起來想要收回聲明中說過的話。