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
- Many of you might balk at the Home Depot idea, but hear me out.
你们中的大多数可能面对家庭工厂的主意逡巡不前，但是听我的。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - To emancipate all mankind, we will balk at no sacrifice. even that of our lives.
为了全人类的解放，即使牺牲生命也在所不惜。 - Even a single man bad been able to balk him.
一个人就把他难倒了。 - Even China would balk at buying small operators entirely dependent on domestic markets.
即使是中国也不会贸然收购完全依赖国内市场的小型运营商。 - 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。 - But if the price of good relations with Russia is snubbing Georgia, many Lithuanians will balk.
但是，如果与俄罗斯建立良好关系的代价是冷落格鲁吉亚，许多立陶宛人将会断然拒绝。 - Your supervisor may balk, but if you work for a small company, you may be able to negotiate this.
你的上司可能不会同意这样做，但是如果你是在一家小公司工作的话，你就可以和上级协商此事情。