balk

• n. 障碍；错误
• vt. 阻止；推诿；错过
• vi. 犹豫；突然止步不前
• n. (Balk)人名；(英)鲍克；(瑞典)巴尔克；(法、德、俄、芬)巴尔克

来自PIE *bhel(2), 膨胀，鼓，词源同bole, 树干，原指树干堆起来的障碍物，后指障碍，令人畏惧的东西。-k, 硬化音，表强调，比较hear, 听，hark, 听.

1. the area on a billiard table behind the balkline;

"a player with ball in hand must play from the balk"

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

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

4. an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base

balk

balk: [OE] There are two separate strands of meaning in balk, or baulk, as it is also spelled. When it first entered English in the 9th century, from Old Norse bálkr, it meant a ‘ridge of land, especially one between ploughed furrows’, from which the modern sense ‘stumbling block, obstruction’ developed. It is not until about 1300 that the meaning ‘beam of timber’ appears in English, although it was an established sense of the Old Norse word’s Germanic ancestor *balkon (source also of English balcony).

The common element of meaning in these two strands is something like ‘bar’, which may have been present in the word’s ultimate Indo- European base *bhalg- (possible source of Greek phálagx ‘log, phalanx’).
=> balcony, phalanx

balk (n.)

Old English balca "ridge, bank," from or influenced by Old Norse balkr "ridge of land," especially between two plowed furrows, both from Proto-Germanic *balkon- (cognates: Old Saxon balko, Danish bjelke, Old Frisian balka, Old High German balcho, German Balken "beam, rafter"), from PIE *bhelg- "beam, plank" (cognates: Latin fulcire "to prop up, support," fulcrum "bedpost;" Lithuanian balziena "cross-bar;" and possibly Greek phalanx "trunk, log, line of battle"). Modern senses are figurative, representing the balk as a hindrance or obstruction (see balk (v.)). Baseball sense is first attested 1845.

balk (v.)

late 14c., "to leave an unplowed ridge when plowing," from balk (n.). Extended meaning "to omit, intentionally neglect" is mid-15c. Most modern senses are figurative, from the notion of a balk in the fields as a hindrance or obstruction: sense of "stop short" (as a horse confronted with an obstacle) is late 15c.; that of "to refuse" is 1580s. Related: Balked; balking.

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He shored up the wall with a thick balk of wood.

他用一根粗大的木头把墙撑住.

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A player with ball in hand must play from the balk.

拿球的选手必须从开球区开始打.

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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.

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Yet the more docile horse would balk every time he came to the edge.

然而那匹温顺的马每当走到壕沟边缘的时候,都踯躅不前.

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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.

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It's all dead easy if Rosy don't balk when the flag drops.

在要行动时如果罗西不坏事那绝对不是难事.

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Many people balk at this danger.

许多人看到这种危险便畏惧不前.

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They often still balk at being stigmatized as weird.

实际上,他们依然害怕别人指责自己“怪里怪气”.

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With a wife to divorce, Pavarotti not balk at paying the high costs of divorce.

为了跟发妻离婚, 帕瓦罗蒂不惜付出高额的离婚费.

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That was a balk to us.

那对我们是个挫折.

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Balk production, are chosen strictly controlled, so that their products can come to perfection.

每件产品的生产, 均精挑细选,严格把关, 使产品更臻完美.

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Factors mainly affecting soil water characteristic curve are soil texture, structure and balk density.

影响水分特征曲线的因素主要是质地 、 结构和容重.

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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, 许多立陶宛人将会犹豫.

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Make not a balk of good ground.

良机莫失.

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People who think nothing of entering passwords balk at the idea of having their eyeballs scanned.

那些把输入口令不当作一码事的人会排斥对其眼球进行扫描的想法.

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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.

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When I about giving up unnecessary shopping or clothes or shoes, many people balk.

当我谈论放弃不必要的购物或衣服或鞋子, 很多人犹豫不前.

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Balk the purpose of those who threaten us.

遏止那些威胁我们的人的目的.

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Even a single man bad been able to balk him.

一个人就把他难倒了.

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And as usual, those in the audience who balk at showboating can simply close their eyes.

和往常一样, 这些坐在包厢里的观众只需闭上他们的眼睛享受即可.

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The high price is a balk to me.

对我来说,价格太高是一个障碍.

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My horse jump across the deep ravine, but all the others balk.

我的马跃过深谷, 但其余的马都突然停止不动.

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Have you ever worked with a therapist, or would you balk at that?

你和治疗师工作过吗?你回避他们 吗 ?

电影对白

People may balk at the sight of a sea of wind turbines.

面对一大片涡轮机海洋,人们可能会感觉不那么舒服.

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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.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The more European voters balk at economic reform, the more politicians yammer on about values.

畏惧经济改革的欧洲选民越多, 政治家们大谈特谈价值观的情况也就会越多.

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To stop short and turn restively from side to side ; balk.

徘徊不前停止不前且踌躇不前; 畏缩不前.

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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。

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