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

• Balk the purpose of those who threaten us.
  遏止那些威胁我们的人的目的。
• When I talk about giving up unnecessary shopping or clothes or shoes, many people balk.
  当我谈到放弃不必要的购物、衣服或者鞋子时，大多数人迟疑了。
• 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。
• 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。
• But your employees may balk at paying more.
  但员工可能并不愿意支付更高的费用。
• As a result, people may balk at the price and not want to buy the insurance.
  结果，人们会对价格不满并且不想购买保险。
• 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。
• For pre-revenue businesses I balk at valuations much over a few hundred thousand pounds even for spectacular ideas.
  对于尚未取得收入的企业，如果估值远高于几十万英镑我是不会接受的即使它们的想法绝妙。
• If you are Kennedy, I am your Jia Gui Lin, is you is day and night beautiful; If you are Napoleon, I am your Josephine, refuses to balk for you!
  如果你是甘乃迪，我就是你贾贵琳，为你日夜美丽；如果你是拿破仑，我就是你约瑟芬，为你在所不惜！
• 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。