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balk v.阻止；突然停止；退缩；拒绝n.障碍；错误；失败n.梁木[棒球]佯投； 犯规动作； [游戏]开球区. (1) 上海体育学院徐本力教授表示，功成名就的运动员不应拒绝上缴一半的收入。(2) 田间的梁木上有小洞口，螃蟹和鱼在雨季的时候会聚集在里面。 A donkey balks when it refuses to move forward. This is a good picture for balk which is often used in conjunction with demands. Demands are something people often balk at like a donkey refusing to move. In baseball, a pitcher balks when he or she begins a pitch by winding up, but does not complete it. It is as if he is refusing to complete a started pitch, and it is against the rules.

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英 [bɔːk] 美 [bɔːk] (1) Professor Xu Benli, of the Shanghai University of Sport, says successful sportspeople should not balk at turning over half of their earnings.(2) There are small holes in the balk of a field, where crabs and fish accumulate in the rainy season. If you balk at your mother's suggestion that you take on more responsibility, you're saying no to added chores. To balk means to refuse to go along with. 1[VERB 动词]畏缩；回避 If you balk at something, you definitely do not want to do it or to let it happen.   [V at n]  [V]Even biology undergraduates may balk at animal experiments...面对动物实验，哪怕是生物专业的大学生也会畏缩。Last October the bank balked, alarmed that a $24m profit had turned into a $20m deficit.去年10月，由于对2,400万美元的利润变成了2,000万的亏损感到担心，这家银行畏缩了。

英语单词	balk
英美音标	英 [bɔːk] 美 [bɔːk]
中文释义	v.阻止；突然停止；退缩；拒绝 n.障碍；错误；失败 n.梁木 [棒球]佯投；犯规动作； [游戏]开球区.
英语例句	(1) Professor Xu Benli, of the Shanghai University of Sport, says successful sportspeople should not balk at turning over half of their earnings. (2) There are small holes in the balk of a field, where crabs and fish accumulate in the rainy season.
中文例句	(1) 上海体育学院徐本力教授表示，功成名就的运动员不应拒绝上缴一半的收入。 (2) 田间的梁木上有小洞口，螃蟹和鱼在雨季的时候会聚集在里面。
vocabulary简明	If you balk at your mother's suggestion that you take on more responsibility, you're saying no to added chores. To balk means to refuse to go along with.
vocabulary扩展	A donkey balks when it refuses to move forward. This is a good picture for balk which is often used in conjunction with demands. Demands are something people often balk at like a donkey refusing to move. In baseball, a pitcher balks when he or she begins a pitch by winding up, but does not complete it. It is as if he is refusing to complete a started pitch, and it is against the rules.
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词]畏缩；回避 If you balk at something, you definitely do not want to do it or to let it happen. [V at n] [V] Even biology undergraduates may balk at animal experiments... 面对动物实验，哪怕是生物专业的大学生也会畏缩。 Last October the bank balked, alarmed that a $24m profit had turned into a $20m deficit. 去年10月，由于对2,400万美元的利润变成了2,000万的亏损感到担心，这家银行畏缩了。

Balk Donkey Refusing Complete 英 Bɔːk] 美 Bɔːk V.阻止；突然停止；退缩；拒绝