柯林斯詞典balk /b??k/ (also baulk) (balking,balked,balks) 1. V-I If you balk at something, you definitely do not want to do it or to let it happen. 阻止; 反對(duì) Even biology undergraduates may balk at animal experiments. 即使是生物專業(yè)的大學(xué)生都可能會(huì)反對(duì)動(dòng)物實(shí)驗(yàn)。 Last October the bank balked, alarmed that a $24M profit had turned into a $20M deficit. 去年十月這家銀行突然虧空,原本2400萬美元的利潤變成了2000萬的赤字讓人震驚。 返回 balk劍橋詞典 balk verb [I] (BE UNWILLING) to be unwilling to do something or to allow something to happen 猶豫 I balked at the prospect of spending four hours on a train with him. 想到要與他一起在火車上度過4個(gè)小時(shí),我心里就犯嘀咕。 balk verb [I] (BASEBALL) in baseball , to stop in the act of throwing the ball to the batter , in a way that is against the rules (棒球投球員的)假投 返回 balk