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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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！ - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - That was a balk to us.
那对我们是个挫折。 - What balk would dare offer such terms?
哪家银行敢提出这样的条件？ - 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。