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

        verb

        双语例句

        • 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!
        • 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。
        • 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。
        • 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。
        • That was a balk to us.
          那对我们是个挫折。
        • 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。
        • 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。
        • 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。
        • But your employees may balk at paying more.
          但员工可能并不愿意支付更高的费用。
        • His parents balk at the cost of the guitar he wants.
          他想要那个吉他,但他父母看到吉他的价格却踌躇不决。