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 $20m deficit.
去年10月，由于对2,400万美元的利润变成了2,000万的亏损感到担心，这家银行畏缩了。
- Even biology undergraduates may balk at animal experiments...
英英释义
noun
- an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
- one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
- the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
- a player with ball in hand must play from the balk
verb
双语例句
- As a result, people may balk at the price and not want to buy the insurance.
结果，人们会对价格不满并且不想购买保险。 - Automakers worry, however, that consumers and regulators may balk at giving up control.
不过，各大厂商担心消费者和监管层可能不会那么痛快地放弃对车的操控权。 - Even a single man bad been able to balk him.
一个人就把他难倒了。 - But your employees may balk at paying more.
但员工可能并不愿意支付更高的费用。 - What balk would dare offer such terms?
哪家银行敢提出这样的条件？ - The result: Customers who can't get the products they need elsewhere don't balk at price increases.
结果是：无法在别的地方买到这些产品的客户没有因价格上涨而打消采购念头。 - Last October the bank balked, alarmed that a$ 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - That was a balk to us.
那对我们是个挫折。