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　

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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。

英英释义

noun

• an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
• one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
  Synonym:rafterbaulk
• something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
  Synonym:hindrancehinderancedeterrentimpedimentbaulkcheckhandicap
• the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
  1. a player with ball in hand must play from the balk
  Synonym:baulk

verb

• refuse to comply
  Synonym:resistbaulkjib

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。