balk的中文翻譯是什麼意思
balk
vi. 畏縮不前，猶豫; （指馬）不肯跑; 拒絕; [體]假動作
vt. 阻止，阻礙; 推諉; 過錯
n. 阻礙，妨礙; 錯誤，挫折; 田埂; [體]假動作
balk的柯林斯釋義
VERB畏縮；迴避
If you balk at something, you definitely do not want to do it or to let it happen.
Even biology undergraduates may balk at animal experiments...
面對動物實驗，哪怕是生物專業的大學生也會畏縮。
Last October the bank balked, alarmed that a $24m profit had turned into a $20m deficit.
去年10月，由於對2,400萬美元的利潤變成了2,000萬的虧損感到擔心，這家銀行畏縮了。
balk的英文釋義
Noun
1. the area on a billiard table behind the balkline;
- a player with ball in hand must play from the balk
2. something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
3. one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
4. an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
Verb
1. refuse to comply
balk的場景例句
He shored up the wall with a thick balk of wood.
他用一根粗大的木頭把牆撐住.
A player with ball in hand must play from the balk.
拿球的選手必須從開球區開始打.
Officials who once wooed foreign investors increasingly balk at approving new deals.
那些力圖吸引外國投資者的官員,也越來越不敢批准新的交易.
Yet the more docile horse would balk every time he came to the edge.
然而那匹溫順的馬每當走到壕溝邊緣的時候,都躑躅不前.
We get strong indications that his agent would balk at that request.
我們得到的強烈暗示是他的經紀人會迴避那個要求.