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 $20m deficit.
去年10月，由于对2,400万美元的利润变成了2,000万的亏损感到担心，这家银行畏缩了。
- Even biology undergraduates may balk at animal experiments...
英英释义
noun
- an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
- one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
- the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
- a player with ball in hand must play from the balk
verb
双语例句
- But your employees may balk at paying more.
但员工可能并不愿意支付更高的费用。 - Last October the bank balked, alarmed that a$ 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。 - For pre-revenue businesses I balk at valuations much over a few hundred thousand pounds even for spectacular ideas.
对于尚未取得收入的企业，如果估值远高于几十万英镑我是不会接受的即使它们的想法绝妙。 - Balk the purpose of those who threaten us.
遏止那些威胁我们的人的目的。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - That was a balk to us.
那对我们是个挫折。 - 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。 - 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。