balking 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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balking 近义词
stop short
thwart
更多balking例句
- A Palestinian offical said the Israelis were balking at their conditions for talks, which include freezing settlements.
- In at least 20 states, governors or legislatures are balking at setting up insurance cooperatives.
- The Democrats want to block those cuts for a year, and the Republicans are balking.
- Even upper-income families are balking at paying $750,000 to $1 million for college.
- The Taliban leadership also was balking at opening a political process that NATO quite rightly demands must be Afghan led.
- And indeed, when part way thru, this zeal came near balking me altogether.
- But he was used to obeying orders after a little balking, and in time his slow brain started him on the hunt for Davidge.
- There is a lady andwell,he was forever balking me and I hated him.
- The canoe squirmed like a hunter balking a hedge, and Jean's blade splintered off to the handle.
- And no one has escaped the temporary balking of his thought by failure to find a suitable word to convey190 the intended meaning.