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　

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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

noun

• an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
• one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
  Synonym:rafterbaulk
• something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
  Synonym:hindrancehinderancedeterrentimpedimentbaulkcheckhandicap
• the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
  1. a player with ball in hand must play from the balk
  Synonym:baulk

verb

• refuse to comply
  Synonym:resistbaulkjib

双语例句

• Regulators might balk at a breakup plan that would further erode the capital cushion.
  由于公司分拆将进一步削弱其资金缓冲能力，此时监管部分可能会阻止此类交易。
• The pharmaceutical companies would be one of the first to balk if people greatly reduced or stopped taking antibiotics altogether, because you'd be hurting their tremendous profit margin.
  如果人们真的大幅降低使用抗生素的数量和频率，首先出来阻止的就会是医药公司，因为这会极大地损害他们的金钱利益。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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！
• America, by contrast, will inevitably balk at surrendering its pre-eminence.
  与此相反，美国将会不可避免的退缩，最终交出其卓越的领导地位。
• What balk would dare offer such terms?
  哪家银行敢提出这样的条件？
• 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。