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

• This balked me a little.
  这使我感到有些不愉快。
• The police balked the attempt to kidnap the child.
  警方挫败了诱拐小孩的企图。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He balked his assigned duties.
  他中止了被分配的工作。
• 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。