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　

TOEFL GRE TEM8

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
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

Many of you might balk at the Home Depot idea, but hear me out.
你们中的大多数可能面对家庭工厂的主意逡巡不前，但是听我的。
That was a balk to us.
那对我们是个挫折。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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？