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 $20m deficit.
去年10月，由于对2,400万美元的利润变成了2,000万的亏损感到担心，这家银行畏缩了。
- Even biology undergraduates may balk at animal experiments...
英英释义
noun
- an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
- one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
- the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
- a player with ball in hand must play from the balk
verb
双语例句
- I don't think it is correct of you to say that America is a balk to world peace.
我认为你说美国是世界和平的障碍是不对的。 - The result: Customers who can't get the products they need elsewhere don't balk at price increases.
结果是：无法在别的地方买到这些产品的客户没有因价格上涨而打消采购念头。 - Automakers worry, however, that consumers and regulators may balk at giving up control.
不过，各大厂商担心消费者和监管层可能不会那么痛快地放弃对车的操控权。 - We get strong indications that his agent would balk at that request.
我们得到的强烈暗示是他的经纪人会回避那个要求。 - What balk would dare offer such terms?
哪家银行敢提出这样的条件？ - As a result, people may balk at the price and not want to buy the insurance.
结果，人们会对价格不满并且不想购买保险。 - It was a great balk to him that he did not comply with my request.
你不顺从我的要求，使他大失所望。 - Even China would balk at buying small operators entirely dependent on domestic markets.
即使是中国也不会贸然收购完全依赖国内市场的小型运营商。 - For pre-revenue businesses I balk at valuations much over a few hundred thousand pounds even for spectacular ideas.
对于尚未取得收入的企业，如果估值远高于几十万英镑我是不会接受的即使它们的想法绝妙。 - Last October the bank balked, alarmed that a$ 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。