balk / bɔk /

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balk3 个定义

v. 无主动词 verb
  1. to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified: He balked at making the speech.
  2. to stop short and stubbornly refuse to go on.
  3. Baseball. to commit a balk.
v. 有主动词 verb
  1. to place an obstacle in the way of; hinder; thwart: a sudden reversal that balked her hopes.
  2. Archaic. to let slip; fail to use: to balk an opportunity.
n. 名词 noun
  1. a check or hindrance; defeat; disappointment.
  2. a strip of land left unplowed.
  3. a crossbeam in the roof of a house that unites and supports the rafters; tie beam.

balk 近义词

v. 动词 verb

stop short

v. 动词 verb

thwart

更多balk例句

  1. Sidebar: the Electoral College is the balk rule of government.
  2. “Megalodon fossils appear in shallower marine sediments,” Balk said.
  3. Although my temptation is to balk like a sitcom father—“Whaddya mean these guys are famous for Tweeting?!”
  4. Producers are not likely to want to hire another actor who may balk at the pressure of filming the major project.
  5. Unlike entitlement cuts, sequester cuts must be renewed every year by Congress, and sooner or later, Congress will likely balk.
  6. In the first place the result of my pilgrimage was very doubtful, and in the second you would have done all you could to balk me.
  7. But balk her in a whim, and she would pour forth the eloquence of a fish-wife or a lady of easy virtue in a pot-house quarrel.
  8. Boggs looked as though he were going to balk flat, until he saw Hal turn as though to summon a soldier.
  9. But there was no telling at what moment these fanatic Mexicans would discover what was going on, and balk it all.
  10. I started to call her something or other a hundred times, I guess, and then I'd balk.