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.- 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 $20m deficit.
去年10月,由于对2,400万美元的利润变成了2,000万的亏损感到担心,这家银行畏缩了。
- Even biology undergraduates may balk at animal experiments...
双语例句
- I balked at the prospect of spending four hours on a train with him.
我不愿意和他在火车上一起呆四小时。 - But the infrastructure deal with Italy is one that officials admit would have been unthinkable before the crisis since they would have balked at selling shares in a strategic asset to a foreign investor.
但官员们承认,与意大利签署的基础设施协议在危机爆发之前是不可想象的,因为他们不愿将战略资产的股份出售给外国投资者。 - But I was in no mood to be balked by a man like him.
但我全然不想被他这样的人挫败。 - This balked me a little.
这使我感到有些不愉快。 - The company board balked at this merger proposal.
公司董事会对并购提议犹豫不决。 - Now it is being leveraged to cope with Italy, which has balked at raising its retirement age to67, a measure Germany reluctantly agreed to in2007.
现在该方法被用在处理了对意大利问题上了。对于把退休年龄提到67岁这个问题,意大利一直以来都十分犹豫,对此,德国曾于2007年勉强同意。 - He was balked as he handed the glasses to the lieutenant.
他心灰意冷,把望远镜递给了副官。 - Last October the bank balked, alarmed that a$ 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。