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

• He balked me to carry out my plan.
  他阻止我实施我的计划。
• 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。
• Her husband balked at the expense of the plans she had made.
  她丈夫对他的计划中所需要的经费感到犹豫。
• The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme.
  由于牧师生性羞赧和敏感，他的沉默寡言与自我克制阻遏了这一阴谋的得逞。
• 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。
• He was balked in his attempt.
  他的企图遭到了挫折。
• 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。
• 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。
• The police balked the attempt to kidnap the child.
  警方挫败了诱拐小孩的企图。
• 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。