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 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - What balk would dare offer such terms?
哪家银行敢提出这样的条件？ - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - The pharmaceutical companies would be one of the first to balk if people greatly reduced or stopped taking antibiotics altogether, because you'd be hurting their tremendous profit margin.
如果人们真的大幅降低使用抗生素的数量和频率，首先出来阻止的就会是医药公司，因为这会极大地损害他们的金钱利益。 - 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。 - 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。