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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

  • 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。
  • Policymakers balked, thinking the plan too beneficial to Citigroup.
    政策制定者有些犹豫不决,认为该计划对花旗的好处太大。
  • Most worried about a dollar crash, as investors balked at America's rising foreign borrowing.
    随着投资者对美国债台日渐高筑的回避,大多数的经济学家担心美元会崩溃。
  • 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。
  • They balked the robber's plan.
    他们使强盗的计划受到挫败。
  • I suggested we sleep out in the open, but he balked at the idea.
    我建议在露天睡觉,但他对此犹豫不决。
  • 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。
  • The police balked the robber's plans.
    警方挫败了强盗的计划。
  • Moderate sports make you relaxed!!! This balked me a little.
    适度的运动,会使你身轻如燕,心情愉快!这使我感到有些不愉快。