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

• 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。
• 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。
• The police balked the attempt to kidnap the child.
  警方挫败了诱拐小孩的企图。
• But he had balked at throwing his wholehearted support behind uprisings against Kadafi and Syria's Bashar Assad, urging reform and reconciliation.
  但是他在对抗卡扎菲和叙利亚的巴沙尔阿萨德的起义发生后，拒绝给予全力支持，反而呼吁改革和和解。
• One employer balked-a sign that this was not a good match.
  而另一位雇主则不同意，这是表明这并非一个好主意的迹象。
• I wanted to buy the dress, but I balked at the high price.
  我本想买这件连衣裙，但一看价钱太高就犹豫了。
• Tang's subordinate Chang thought of buying it, but balked at the price they asked.
  唐易安的属下常副官想把它买下来，可是高昂的价格使他望而却步。
• Many lenders approached to invest in a combined GM-Chrysler have also balked.
  曾被接触过来投资合并后的通用汽车-克莱斯勒的许多放款人也都止步不前。
• 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。
• They balked the robber's plan.
  他们使强盗的计划受到挫败。