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

• 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。
• 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。
• So Paulson balked, and by late October the capital purchase plan was in place.
  因此泡尔桑犹豫不决，并且十月底之前资金收购计划已经到位。
• 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。
• This balked me a little.
  这使我感到有些不愉快。
• 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。
• 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。
• France and Germany have balked at such action, saying the emphasis should be on regulatory reform.
  法国和德国已拒绝了这一提议，表示各国应该把中心放在监管制度的改革上。
• He balked me to carry out my plan.
  他阻止我实施我的计划。
• 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。