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 $20m deficit.
去年10月,由于对2,400万美元的利润变成了2,000万的亏损感到担心,这家银行畏缩了。
- Even biology undergraduates may balk at animal experiments...
双语例句
- I balked at the prospect of spending four hours on a train with him.
我不愿意和他在火车上一起呆四小时。 - But I was in no mood to be balked by a man like him.
但我全然不想被他这样的人挫败。 - Many lenders approached to invest in a combined GM-Chrysler have also balked.
曾被接触过来投资合并后的通用汽车-克莱斯勒的许多放款人也都止步不前。 - This balked me a little.
这使我感到有些不愉快。 - But the infrastructure deal with Italy is one that officials admit would have been unthinkable before the crisis since they would have balked at selling shares in a strategic asset to a foreign investor.
但官员们承认,与意大利签署的基础设施协议在危机爆发之前是不可想象的,因为他们不愿将战略资产的股份出售给外国投资者。 - He was balked in his attempt.
他的企图遭到了挫折。 - They balked the robber's plan.
他们使强盗的计划受到挫败。 - The police balked the attempt to kidnap the child.
警方挫败了诱拐小孩的企图。 - Her husband balked at the expense of the plans she had made.
她丈夫对他的计划中所需要的经费感到犹豫。 - Last October the bank balked, alarmed that a$ 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。