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.- 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。 - Last October the bank balked, alarmed that a $24m profit had turned into a $20m deficit.
去年10月,由于对2,400万美元的利润变成了2,000万的亏损感到担心,这家银行畏缩了。
- Even biology undergraduates may balk at animal experiments...
双语例句
- The police balked the robber's plans.
警方挫败了强盗的计划。 - He was balked as he handed the glasses to the lieutenant.
他心灰意冷,把望远镜递给了副官。 - So Paulson balked, and by late October the capital purchase plan was in place.
因此泡尔桑犹豫不决,并且十月底之前资金收购计划已经到位。 - Policymakers balked, thinking the plan too beneficial to Citigroup.
政策制定者有些犹豫不决,认为该计划对花旗的好处太大。 - One employer balked-a sign that this was not a good match.
而另一位雇主则不同意,这是表明这并非一个好主意的迹象。 - Her husband balked at the expense of the plans she had made.
她丈夫对他的计划中所需要的经费感到犹豫。 - In Wisconsin unions have swallowed higher contributions but balked at attempts to restrict their bargaining rights.
在威斯康辛州,工会已经接受了更高的缴费数额,但却对限制其协商权利的努力说不。 - But he had balked at throwing his wholehearted support behind uprisings against Kadafi and Syria's Bashar Assad, urging reform and reconciliation.
但是他在对抗卡扎菲和叙利亚的巴沙尔阿萨德的起义发生后,拒绝给予全力支持,反而呼吁改革和和解。 - Last October the bank balked, alarmed that a$ 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 balked me to carry out my plan.
他阻止我实施我的计划。