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balk

/bawk/US // bɔk //UK // (bɔːk, bɔːlk) //

逡巡不前,巴尔克,逡巡,巴尔干

Related Words

hesitate犹豫不决,犹豫,迟疑不决,踌躇不决refuse拒绝,拒收,拒绝接受,拒不接受resist抵制,抗拒,抗争,抵抗recoil反冲力,后坐力,反冲,后退turn down驳回,拒绝,掉头向下,掉头flinch畏缩,畏缩不前,望而却步,畏畏缩缩disappoint失望,让人失望的是,让人失望,使人失望的是stall摊位,档期,档口,摊开dodge躲避,躲闪,躲躲闪闪,躲开cramp痉挛,痉痉挛,痉缩shy羞涩,羞涩的,害羞,害羞的desist停止,终止,住手,停止使用evade躲避,回避,避开,逃避demur抗辩,抗议,抗辩权,抗辨crimp卷曲,压接,卷边,卷绕shirk推卸责任,推诿,逃避责任,逃避hinder阻碍,妨碍,碍,阻碍因素baffle挡板,档板,迷惑,迷惑性bar吧台,酒吧,杠杠,栏obstruct阻挠,阻挡,阻碍,妨碍

Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified: He balked at making the speech.
    • : to stop short and stubbornly refuse to go on.
    • : Baseball. to commit a balk.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to place an obstacle in the way of; hinder; thwart: a sudden reversal that balked her hopes.
    • : Archaic. to let slip; fail to use: to balk an opportunity.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a check or hindrance; defeat; disappointment.
    • : a strip of land left unplowed.
    • : a crossbeam in the roof of a house that unites and supports the rafters; tie beam.
    • : any heavy timber used for building purposes.
    • : Baseball. an illegal motion by a pitcher while one or more runners are on base, as a pitch in which there is either an insufficient or too long a pause after the windup or stretch, a pretended throw to first or third base or to the batter with one foot on the pitcher's rubber, etc., resulting in a penalty advancing the runner or runners one base.
    • : Billiards. any of the eight panels or compartments lying between the cushions of the table and the balklines.
    • : Obsolete. a miss, slip, or failure: to make a balk.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbstop short
Forms: balked, balking
Synonyms
flinch畏缩,畏缩不前,望而却步,畏畏缩缩hesitate犹豫不决,犹豫,迟疑不决,踌躇不决recoil反冲力,后坐力,反冲,后退refuse拒绝,拒收,拒绝接受,拒不接受resist抵制,抗拒,抗争,抵抗turn down驳回,拒绝,掉头向下,掉头cramp痉挛,痉痉挛,痉缩crimp卷曲,压接,卷边,卷绕demur抗辩,抗议,抗辩权,抗辨desist停止,终止,住手,停止使用dodge躲避,躲闪,躲躲闪闪,躲开evade躲避,回避,避开,逃避shirk推卸责任,推诿,逃避责任,逃避shy羞涩,羞涩的,害羞,害羞的shrink from缩水从,缩水自,缩减upset apple cart颠倒黑白,颠沛流离,颠沛流离的苹果,翻脸不认人
verbthwart
Forms: balked, balking
Synonyms
disappoint失望,让人失望的是,让人失望,使人失望的是stall摊位,档期,档口,摊开baffle挡板,档板,迷惑,迷惑性bar吧台,酒吧,杠杠,栏beat打,殴打,拍打,击打check检查,检查一下circumvent回避,避开,躲避,逃避counteract抗衡,抗击,抵消,打击cramp痉挛,痉痉挛,痉缩dash冲刺,冲冲冲,破折号,冲刺一下defeat挫败,打败,失败,挫折disconcert令人不安,使人不安,使人不安的是,令人不安的是foil箔,箔片,箔纸,挫折forestall抢救,抢占先机,抢先,预防frustrate沮丧,挫折,挫败,沮丧的hinder阻碍,妨碍,碍,阻碍因素obstruct阻挠,阻挡,阻碍,妨碍prevent防止,预防,阻止,避免ruin破坏,毁坏,毁掉,毁了stop停止,停下来,停,停住cramp one's style碍手碍脚,束手无策,束手就擒,碍手碍脚的throw a curve抛出一个曲线,抛出曲线,抛出一个弧线,抛出橄榄枝throw monkey wrench in大开杀戒,大闹天宫upset the apple cart颠倒黑白,翻脸不认人,翻云覆雨,颠倒是非

Examples

  • Sidebar: the Electoral College is the balk rule of government.

  • “Megalodon fossils appear in shallower marine sediments,” Balk said.

  • Although my temptation is to balk like a sitcom father—“Whaddya mean these guys are famous for Tweeting?!”

  • Producers are not likely to want to hire another actor who may balk at the pressure of filming the major project.

  • Unlike entitlement cuts, sequester cuts must be renewed every year by Congress, and sooner or later, Congress will likely balk.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Boggs looked as though he were going to balk flat, until he saw Hal turn as though to summon a soldier.

  • But there was no telling at what moment these fanatic Mexicans would discover what was going on, and balk it all.

  • I started to call her something or other a hundred times, I guess, and then I'd balk.

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