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

• 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。
• For pre-revenue businesses I balk at valuations much over a few hundred thousand pounds even for spectacular ideas.
  对于尚未取得收入的企业，如果估值远高于几十万英镑我是不会接受的即使它们的想法绝妙。
• 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。
• Officials who once wooed foreign investors increasingly balk at approving new deals.
  那些力图吸引外国投资者的官员，也越来越不敢批准新的交易。
• Even a single man bad been able to balk him.
  一个人就把他难倒了。
• 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。
• When I talk about giving up unnecessary shopping or clothes or shoes, many people balk.
  当我谈到放弃不必要的购物、衣服或者鞋子时，大多数人迟疑了。
• 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。
• 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。
• The result: Customers who can't get the products they need elsewhere don't balk at price increases.
  结果是：无法在别的地方买到这些产品的客户没有因价格上涨而打消采购念头。