balked

英 [bɔːkt]

美 [bɔkt]

v.  妨碍；阻碍；防止；使受挫折; （突然）停止；畏缩不前；犹豫；回避
balk的过去分词和过去式

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。

双语例句

• I balked at the prospect of spending four hours on a train with him.
  我不愿意和他在火车上一起呆四小时。
• The police balked the robber's plans.
  警方挫败了强盗的计划。
• The police balked the attempt to kidnap the child.
  警方挫败了诱拐小孩的企图。
• So Paulson balked, and by late October the capital purchase plan was in place.
  因此泡尔桑犹豫不决，并且十月底之前资金收购计划已经到位。
• This balked me a little.
  这使我感到有些不愉快。
• But I was in no mood to be balked by a man like him.
  但我全然不想被他这样的人挫败。
• He planned to have a duel, but we balked him out of it.
  他打算决斗，但是我们劝阻了他。
• I suggested we sleep out in the open, but he balked at the idea.
  我建议在露天睡觉，但他对此犹豫不决。
• He was balked as he handed the glasses to the lieutenant.
  他心灰意冷，把望远镜递给了副官。
• But the infrastructure deal with Italy is one that officials admit would have been unthinkable before the crisis since they would have balked at selling shares in a strategic asset to a foreign investor.
  但官员们承认，与意大利签署的基础设施协议在危机爆发之前是不可想象的，因为他们不愿将战略资产的股份出售给外国投资者。