balk
英 [bɔːk]
美 [bɔːk]
n. 投手犯规; 失败；错误；挫折; 障碍；阻碍；妨碍
v. 妨碍；阻碍；防止；使受挫折; （突然）停止；畏缩不前；犹豫；回避
过去式：balked 过去分词：balked 复数：balks 现在分词：balking 第三人称单数：balks
Collins.1 / BNC.23905 / COCA.10330
柯林斯词典
- VERB 畏缩；回避
If youbalk atsomething, you definitely do not want to do it or to let it happen.- Even biology undergraduates may balk at animal experiments...
面对动物实验，哪怕是生物专业的大学生也会畏缩。 - Last October the bank balked, alarmed that a $24m profit had turned into a $20m deficit.
去年10月，由于对2,400万美元的利润变成了2,000万的亏损感到担心，这家银行畏缩了。
- Even biology undergraduates may balk at animal experiments...
英英释义
noun
- an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
- one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
- the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
- a player with ball in hand must play from the balk
verb
双语例句
- Balk the purpose of those who threaten us.
遏止那些威胁我们的人的目的。 - Even biology undergraduates may balk at animal experiments
面对动物实验，哪怕是生物专业的大学生也会畏缩。 - We get strong indications that his agent would balk at that request.
我们得到的强烈暗示是他的经纪人会回避那个要求。 - The result: Customers who can't get the products they need elsewhere don't balk at price increases.
结果是：无法在别的地方买到这些产品的客户没有因价格上涨而打消采购念头。 - But your employees may balk at paying more.
但员工可能并不愿意支付更高的费用。 - German taxpayers balk at the idea of larger transfers of money to southern Europe.
德国纳税人对于向南欧国家转移更多资金的想法缺乏热情。 - His parents balk at the cost of the guitar he wants.
他想要那个吉他，但他父母看到吉他的价格却踌躇不决。 - Regulators might balk at a breakup plan that would further erode the capital cushion.
由于公司分拆将进一步削弱其资金缓冲能力，此时监管部分可能会阻止此类交易。 - I don't think it is correct of you to say that America is a balk to world peace.
我认为你说美国是世界和平的障碍是不对的。 - I still balk at the idea of a variable on the battlefield.
我仍然拒绝可变物的想法在战场的。