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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - That was a balk to us.
那对我们是个挫折。 - Even a single man bad been able to balk him.
一个人就把他难倒了。 - 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。 - America, by contrast, will inevitably balk at surrendering its pre-eminence.
与此相反,美国将会不可避免的退缩,最终交出其卓越的领导地位。 - 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。 - It was a great balk to him that he did not comply with my request.
你不顺从我的要求,使他大失所望。 - 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。