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

• 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 balked his assigned duties.
  他中止了被分配的工作。
• 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。
• In Wisconsin unions have swallowed higher contributions but balked at attempts to restrict their bargaining rights.
  在威斯康辛州，工会已经接受了更高的缴费数额，但却对限制其协商权利的努力说不。
• 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。
• They balked the robber's plan.
  他们使强盗的计划受到挫败。
• 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。
• The company board balked at this merger proposal.
  公司董事会对并购提议犹豫不决。
• 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。
• The police balked the attempt to kidnap the child.
  警方挫败了诱拐小孩的企图。