balked
英 [bɔːkt]
美 [bɔkt]
v. 妨碍;阻碍;防止;使受挫折; (突然)停止;畏缩不前;犹豫;回避
balk的过去分词和过去式
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...
双语例句
- Her husband balked at the expense of the plans she had made.
她丈夫对他的计划中所需要的经费感到犹豫。 - He was balked in his attempt.
他的企图遭到了挫折。 - Most worried about a dollar crash, as investors balked at America's rising foreign borrowing.
随着投资者对美国债台日渐高筑的回避,大多数的经济学家担心美元会崩溃。 - Now it is being leveraged to cope with Italy, which has balked at raising its retirement age to67, a measure Germany reluctantly agreed to in2007.
现在该方法被用在处理了对意大利问题上了。对于把退休年龄提到67岁这个问题,意大利一直以来都十分犹豫,对此,德国曾于2007年勉强同意。 - One employer balked-a sign that this was not a good match.
而另一位雇主则不同意,这是表明这并非一个好主意的迹象。 - The company board balked at this merger proposal.
公司董事会对并购提议犹豫不决。 - He planned to have a duel, but we balked him out of it.
他打算决斗,但是我们劝阻了他。 - Many lenders approached to invest in a combined GM-Chrysler have also balked.
曾被接触过来投资合并后的通用汽车-克莱斯勒的许多放款人也都止步不前。 - France and Germany have balked at such action, saying the emphasis should be on regulatory reform.
法国和德国已拒绝了这一提议,表示各国应该把中心放在监管制度的改革上。 - Many people balked at this danger.
许多人看到这种危险便畏缩不前。