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
- This balked me a little.
这使我感到有些不愉快。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Many people balked at this danger.
许多人看到这种危险便畏缩不前。 - The police balked the attempt to kidnap the child.
警方挫败了诱拐小孩的企图。