balk

1. VERB 畏缩；回避
   If you balk at something, you definitely do not want to do it or to let it happen.
   1. 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。
   2. 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。

1. 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。
2. 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。
3. To emancipate all mankind, we will balk at no sacrifice. even that of our lives.
   为了全人类的解放，即使牺牲生命也在所不惜。
4. Balk the purpose of those who threaten us.
   遏止那些威胁我们的人的目的。
5. Automakers worry, however, that consumers and regulators may balk at giving up control.
   不过，各大厂商担心消费者和监管层可能不会那么痛快地放弃对车的操控权。
6. But your employees may balk at paying more.
   但员工可能并不愿意支付更高的费用。
7. Regulators might balk at a breakup plan that would further erode the capital cushion.
   由于公司分拆将进一步削弱其资金缓冲能力，此时监管部分可能会阻止此类交易。
8. Your supervisor may balk, but if you work for a small company, you may be able to negotiate this.
   你的上司可能不会同意这样做，但是如果你是在一家小公司工作的话，你就可以和上级协商此事情。
9. For pre-revenue businesses I balk at valuations much over a few hundred thousand pounds even for spectacular ideas.
   对于尚未取得收入的企业，如果估值远高于几十万英镑我是不会接受的即使它们的想法绝妙。
10. I don't think it is correct of you to say that America is a balk to world peace.
    我认为你说美国是世界和平的障碍是不对的。
11. But if the price of good relations with Russia is snubbing Georgia, many Lithuanians will balk.
    但是，如果与俄罗斯建立良好关系的代价是冷落格鲁吉亚，许多立陶宛人将会断然拒绝。
12. German taxpayers balk at the idea of larger transfers of money to southern Europe.
    德国纳税人对于向南欧国家转移更多资金的想法缺乏热情。
13. That was a balk to us.
    那对我们是个挫折。
14. I'm pretty sure God wouldn't balk at giving money ( or anything else).
    我十分确信上帝会毫不犹豫的布施金钱（或其它的东西）。
15. Even China would balk at buying small operators entirely dependent on domestic markets.
    即使是中国也不会贸然收购完全依赖国内市场的小型运营商。
16. I still balk at the idea of a variable on the battlefield.
    我仍然拒绝可变物的想法在战场的。
17. America, by contrast, will inevitably balk at surrendering its pre-eminence.
    与此相反，美国将会不可避免的退缩，最终交出其卓越的领导地位。
18. What balk would dare offer such terms?
    哪家银行敢提出这样的条件？
19. Even a single man bad been able to balk him.
    一个人就把他难倒了。
20. As a result, people may balk at the price and not want to buy the insurance.
    结果，人们会对价格不满并且不想购买保险。
21. If you are Kennedy, I am your Jia Gui Lin, is you is day and night beautiful; If you are Napoleon, I am your Josephine, refuses to balk for you!
    如果你是甘乃迪，我就是你贾贵琳，为你日夜美丽；如果你是拿破仑，我就是你约瑟芬，为你在所不惜！
22. The pharmaceutical companies would be one of the first to balk if people greatly reduced or stopped taking antibiotics altogether, because you'd be hurting their tremendous profit margin.
    如果人们真的大幅降低使用抗生素的数量和频率，首先出来阻止的就会是医药公司，因为这会极大地损害他们的金钱利益。
23. His parents balk at the cost of the guitar he wants.
    他想要那个吉他，但他父母看到吉他的价格却踌躇不决。
24. When I talk about giving up unnecessary shopping or clothes or shoes, many people balk.
    当我谈到放弃不必要的购物、衣服或者鞋子时，大多数人迟疑了。
25. We get strong indications that his agent would balk at that request.
    我们得到的强烈暗示是他的经纪人会回避那个要求。
26. Officials who once wooed foreign investors increasingly balk at approving new deals.
    那些力图吸引外国投资者的官员，也越来越不敢批准新的交易。
27. The result: Customers who can't get the products they need elsewhere don't balk at price increases.
    结果是：无法在别的地方买到这些产品的客户没有因价格上涨而打消采购念头。
28. It was a great balk to him that he did not comply with my request.
    你不顺从我的要求，使他大失所望。
29. Many of you might balk at the Home Depot idea, but hear me out.
    你们中的大多数可能面对家庭工厂的主意逡巡不前，但是听我的。

noun

1. an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base

2. one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof

   Synonym:    rafterbaulk

3. something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress

   Synonym:    hindrancehinderancedeterrentimpedimentbaulkcheckhandicap

4. the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
   1. a player with ball in hand must play from the balk

   Synonym:    baulk

verb

1. refuse to comply

   Synonym:    resistbaulkjib