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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

  • I balked at the prospect of spending four hours on a train with him.
    我不愿意和他在火车上一起呆四小时。
  • But the infrastructure deal with Italy is one that officials admit would have been unthinkable before the crisis since they would have balked at selling shares in a strategic asset to a foreign investor.
    但官员们承认,与意大利签署的基础设施协议在危机爆发之前是不可想象的,因为他们不愿将战略资产的股份出售给外国投资者。
  • 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。
  • This balked me a little.
    这使我感到有些不愉快。
  • The company board balked at this merger proposal.
    公司董事会对并购提议犹豫不决。
  • Now it is being leveraged to cope with Italy, which has balked at raising its retirement age to67, a measure Germany reluctantly agreed to in2007.
    现在该方法被用在处理了对意大利问题上了。对于把退休年龄提到67岁这个问题,意大利一直以来都十分犹豫,对此,德国曾于2007年勉强同意。
  • He was balked as he handed the glasses to the lieutenant.
    他心灰意冷,把望远镜递给了副官。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • He planned to have a duel, but we balked him out of it.
    他打算决斗,但是我们劝阻了他。