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 $20m deficit.
去年10月,由于对2,400万美元的利润变成了2,000万的亏损感到担心,这家银行畏缩了。
- Even biology undergraduates may balk at animal experiments...
英英释义
noun
- an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
- one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
- the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
- a player with ball in hand must play from the balk
verb
双语例句
- Regulators might balk at a breakup plan that would further erode the capital cushion.
由于公司分拆将进一步削弱其资金缓冲能力,此时监管部分可能会阻止此类交易。 - But if the price of good relations with Russia is snubbing Georgia, many Lithuanians will balk.
但是,如果与俄罗斯建立良好关系的代价是冷落格鲁吉亚,许多立陶宛人将会断然拒绝。 - As a result, people may balk at the price and not want to buy the insurance.
结果,人们会对价格不满并且不想购买保险。 - I don't think it is correct of you to say that America is a balk to world peace.
我认为你说美国是世界和平的障碍是不对的。 - Last October the bank balked, alarmed that a$ 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。 - 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。 - 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! - That was a balk to us.
那对我们是个挫折。 - 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。 - 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。