balking

英 [ˈbɔːkɪŋ]

美 [ˈbɔkɪŋ]

v.  妨碍；阻碍；防止；使受挫折; （突然）停止；畏缩不前；犹豫；回避
balk的现在分词

电力

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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

英英释义

adj

• stopping short and refusing to go on
  1. a balking
  2. a balky mule
  3. a balky customer
  Synonym:balky

双语例句

• The phenomena of the customers 'balking and reneging offen happens in our real life.
  在现实生活中我们经常遇到顾客的止步和中途退出现象。
• Israel is hinting it would trade hundreds of Hamas prisoners for Corporal Shalit but is balking at some of the names Hamas wants freed.
  以色列暗示它将会用数百名哈马斯囚徒来换取沙利特的平安归来，但是避开了哈马斯所期释放的若干人。
• The UK, backed by France, has spent the past two years dragging its feet in accepting more contributions from emerging Asian nations to the IMF, balking at the increased votes on the fund's executive board that come with them.
  过去两年，在法国的支持下，英国迟迟不愿接受新兴亚洲国家向IMF做出更多捐赠，拒绝让它们随之在IMF执董会享有更大发言权。
• Because of fears for their stability, investors have been balking at buying their commercial paper.
  由于担心其稳定性，投资者们一直不愿购买各银行的商业票据。
• In this paper, a queuing system is considered with reneging, balking, batch arrival and multiple working vacations under the conditions of the limited site.
  本文在有限场地的条件下，研究了带有止步和中途退出的成批到达的多重工作休假排队系统。
• Selling more high-priced, high-margin drugs has left a hole to be filled, with generic competition escalating and health services balking at the bill.
  销售定价更高、利润率更高的药物留下了一个需要填补的窟窿，而非专利药物竞争加剧、医疗服务业不愿为此埋单。
• A queueing system GI~ X/ M/ 1/ N with balking and batch arrivals was discussed. The interarrival and service times are arbitrarily and exponentially distributed, respectively.
  研究了一个顾客成批到达，到达间隔服从一般分布，服务时间服从指数分布，1个服务台，等待队列长度有限，且具有阻行机制的排队系统GIX/M/1/N；
• M~ x/ M/ 1/ N queuing system with balking, batch arrival and multiple working vacations
  带有止步的成批到达的M~x/M/1/N多重工作休假排队系统
• Even for me, even after all this time, I still find myself sometimes balking at the word Guru.
  即便对我来说，即使经过这么久的时间，我发现自己依然时而对导师一词有所迟疑。
• Everyone presumes that NBC has Dana Carvey waiting in the wings if Letterman bolts. but, says an NBC executive," that's a long way from a lock. "for openers, Carvey is balking.
  每个人都认为如果莱特曼离去，国家广播公司已经有卡维等候接替。可是一位国家广播公司的高级主管说，“事情根本尚未销定。”首先，卡维并未接受。