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

• 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。
• The police balked the attempt to kidnap the child.
  警方挫败了诱拐小孩的企图。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• One employer balked-a sign that this was not a good match.
  而另一位雇主则不同意，这是表明这并非一个好主意的迹象。
• 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。
• They balked the robber's plan.
  他们使强盗的计划受到挫败。
• 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。