balks

英 [bɔːks]

美 [bɔks]

v.  妨碍；阻碍；防止；使受挫折; （突然）停止；畏缩不前；犹豫；回避
balk的第三人称单数

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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• The board balks at the proposal to replace the CEO.
  董事会对替换CEO的提议犹豫不决。
• They braced up the old house with balks of timber.
  他们用梁木加固旧房子。
• Roach would like the US to plan for this strategically, though he balks at the suggestion that he is calling for a Third Plenum in Washington.
  罗奇希望美国为此进行战略上的规划，尽管他否认了有关自己呼吁在华盛顿召开三中全会的说法。
• But then the compiler or IDE balks that you haven't dealt with the checked InterruptedException.
  但是编译器或IDE报错说没有处理检查到的InterruptedException。
• Wang Ching-feng, who as minister of justice balks at suggestions that investigations are politically motivated, notes that Mr Chen's corruption probe began when he was still in office.
  台湾法务部长王清峰对于调查具有政治动机的说法不以为然。她指出，当陈水扁还在任内时，对他的贪腐调查就已启动。
• Compared with other methods, it balks at the reliance of data and prior knowledge of the failure feature parameters in the various fault state of circuit, and it only needs to collect state information of normal circuit to accomplish fault diagnosis for circuit.
  和其它的方法相比，该方法避开了对电路在各种故障态下的故障特征参数等先验知识和数据的依赖，仅需要采集一定量电路正常工作时的状态信息即可完成电路的故障分诊断工作。
• But if you are habitually late for routine business and for events that don't cause you much discomfort, then the problem is mainly with self-discipline and your inner brat, the part of you that balks at exerting itself, and at being told what to do.
  但是，如果你已经习惯在任何常规工作和活动场合迟到，那就是自律问题了，还有你心里那个顽劣的自己，那个阻止你努力上进、不让你听从引导的自己。
• The quality balks stemmed from extensive management, and the 4 problems in fulfilling the scientific development strategy that win through high quality are surveyed by the core mind of scientific views of development.
  用科学发展观核心理念，审视了粗放式增长方式造成的质量障碍，以及落实以质取胜的科学发展战略应重视的四个问题。
• A spokeswoman balks at the suggestion the salon might offer beer, but says they could do tea or coffee.
  一位女发言人拒绝了沙龙提供啤酒的建议，但表示可以提供茶或咖啡。