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
- 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。 - Balk the purpose of those who threaten us.
遏止那些威胁我们的人的目的。 - 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。 - Even China would balk at buying small operators entirely dependent on domestic markets.
即使是中国也不会贸然收购完全依赖国内市场的小型运营商。 - But your employees may balk at paying more.
但员工可能并不愿意支付更高的费用。 - 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。 - But if the price of good relations with Russia is snubbing Georgia, many Lithuanians will balk.
但是,如果与俄罗斯建立良好关系的代价是冷落格鲁吉亚,许多立陶宛人将会断然拒绝。 - 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。 - If you are Kennedy, I am your Jia Gui Lin, is you is day and night beautiful; If you are Napoleon, I am your Josephine, refuses to balk for you!
如果你是甘乃迪,我就是你贾贵琳,为你日夜美丽;如果你是拿破仑,我就是你约瑟芬,为你在所不惜! - 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。