balk 的 3 个定义
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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balk 近义词
stop short
thwart
更多balk例句
- 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.