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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - What balk would dare offer such terms?
哪家银行敢提出这样的条件？ - That was a balk to us.
那对我们是个挫折。 - But your employees may balk at paying more.
但员工可能并不愿意支付更高的费用。 - 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。