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
- His parents balk at the cost of the guitar he wants.
他想要那个吉他，但他父母看到吉他的价格却踌躇不决。 - 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。 - 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。 - It was a great balk to him that he did not comply with my request.
你不顺从我的要求，使他大失所望。 - 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。 - 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！ - 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。 - But your employees may balk at paying more.
但员工可能并不愿意支付更高的费用。 - Even China would balk at buying small operators entirely dependent on domestic markets.
即使是中国也不会贸然收购完全依赖国内市场的小型运营商。 - 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。