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 people balked at this danger.
  许多人看到这种危险便畏缩不前。
• They balked the robber's plan.
  他们使强盗的计划受到挫败。
• The police balked the attempt to kidnap the child.
  警方挫败了诱拐小孩的企图。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The police balked the robber's plans.
  警方挫败了强盗的计划。