balk的意思|balk的解释-里氏词典

balk [bɒ:k]

n. 障碍, 错误, 失败

vt. 阻止, 错过, 推诿

vi. 逡巡不前

The high price is a balk to me.
对我来说，价格太高是一个障碍。
We are balked to do what we want to do.
有人阻止我们去做我们想做的事情。
He balked me to carry out my plan.
他阻止我实施我的计划。

balk

[ noun ]

the area on a billiard table behind the balkline

<noun.location>

a player with ball in hand must play from the balk

something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress

<noun.cognition>

one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof

<noun.artifact>

an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base

<noun.act>

[ verb ]

refuse to comply

<verb.social>

baulk

jib

resist

Balk \Balk\, v. i. [Prob. from D. balken to bray, bawl.]
To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore,
the direction taken by the shoals of herring.

Balk \Balk\, v. i.
1. To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition. [Obs.]

In strifeful terms with him to balk. --Spenser.

2. To stop abruptly and stand still obstinately; to jib; to
stop short; to swerve; as, the horse balks.

Note: This has been regarded as an Americanism, but it occurs
in Spenser's ``Fa["e]rie Queene,'' Book IV., 10, xxv.

Ne ever ought but of their true loves talkt,
Ne ever for rebuke or blame of any balkt.

3. (Baseball) to commit a balk[6]; -- of a pitcher.
[PJC]

Balk \Balk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Balked} (b[add]kt); p. pr. &
vb. n. {Balking}.] [From {Balk} a beam; orig. to put a balk
or beam in one's way, in order to stop or hinder. Cf., for
sense 2, AS. on balcan legan to lay in heaps.]
1. To leave or make balks in. [Obs.] --Gower.

2. To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles. [Obs.]

Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights,
Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see.
--Shak.

3. To omit, miss, or overlook by chance. [Obs.]

4. To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to
let go by; to shirk. [Obs. or Obsolescent]

By reason of the contagion then in London, we balked
the inns. --Evelyn.

Sick he is, and keeps his bed, and balks his meat.
--Bp. Hall.

Nor doth he any creature balk,
But lays on all he meeteth. --Drayton.

5. To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to
thwart; as, to balk expectation.

They shall not balk my entrance. --Byron.

Balk \Balk\ (b[add]k), n. [AS. balca beam, ridge; akin to Icel.
b[=a]lkr partition, bj[=a]lki beam, OS. balko, G. balken; cf.
Gael. balc ridge of earth between two furrows. Cf. {Balcony},
{Balk}, v. t., 3d {Bulk}.]
1. A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows, or at the
end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside.

Bad plowmen made balks of such ground. --Fuller.

2. A great beam, rafter, or timber; esp., the tie-beam of a
house. The loft above was called ``the balks.''

Tubs hanging in the balks. --Chaucer.

3. (Mil.) One of the beams connecting the successive supports
of a trestle bridge or bateau bridge.

4. A hindrance or disappointment; a check.

A balk to the confidence of the bold undertaker.
--South.

5. A sudden and obstinate stop; a failure.

6. (Baseball) A deceptive gesture of the pitcher, as if to
deliver the ball. It is illegal and is penalized by
allowing the runners on base to advance one base.

{Balk line} (Billiards), a line across a billiard table near
one end, marking a limit within which the cue balls are
placed in beginning a game; also, a line around the table,
parallel to the sides, used in playing a particular game,
called the balk line game.

But some members of Congress might balk at that idea as "empire building," said Rep. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, a congressional expert on the embassy debacle.
But if they balk, the firm might have to turn to other techniques to complete the transaction.
He did, however, balk somewhat at suggestions in the investment banking community that he might be willing to buy Carl C. Icahn's 14.8% interest in Texaco as a method of cultivating favor with Texaco management.
Western technology-transfer authorities may balk at letting sensitive avionic systems go into Soviet-built airplanes.
It also is the most expensive prescription drug, prompting fears that some insurers who normally provide prescription-drug coverage will balk at its price.
LIVESTOCK AND MEATS: Concern that consumers will balk at the meat counter if high wholesale prices are passed on to them helped sink cattle, hog and pork belly prices.
Consequently, says Dr. Lucien Cote, an associate professor of neurology and rehabilitation medicine at Columbia University, the middle-aged brain tends to balk at short-term memory tasks.
Turkish exporters might balk at the competitive discipline on their price increases, but not if they reflect on what the sinking lira has done to their costs of labor, credit and imported machines and materials.
USX spokesman Thomas Ferrall declined to comment on the union's request to match any offer for the steel unit, but many analysts believe USX would balk at such a deal.
But if they balk, First City would likely be declared insolvent and all holders would be entirely wiped out.
The 25-fold cost differential is too large to be covered by marginal adjustments in premiums, and most workers will balk at bearing the extra costs.
Others, however, balk at the reliance on one man.
But Congress could balk at a lengthy study.
And managers sometimes balk at moving to communities where the sidewalks roll up at 5 p.m.
Others surely will balk at his objections to any federal aid for high-definition television.
Bankers Trust became the last big New York bank to balk at further increases in its Latin loan reserves.
Legislators from other states balk at the proposal, and Bush has said he would veto any measure that includes such a cost-sharing tax.
EC officials had been expected to balk at the plan, under which Renault's legal status as a special government agency wouldn't be changed.
Others balk at changing the name.
If the 4,700 delegates to the congress balk at those and other demands, as seems likely, the group's estimated 100 delegates are to quit and organize a new party by September.
Its estimated cost would be $703,000 and some supporters fear board members might balk at the expense of the plan when they meet on Monday.
But many Wall Street firms still balk.
But Bulgaria continues to balk at a new emigration accord with Turkey that would set out in detail such things as property rights and social security claims.
Today, it has about half that number. Part of the problem, he and others say, is companies that balk at using the new skills.
'But there is a simple counter-argument to companies who balk at relocation subsidies,' says Mr Finney.
Analysts predict these companies will balk at paying interest rates that are high enough to make it profitable for banks to lend under the new capital rules. Instead, the analysts say, they will sell securities in public markets.
Environmental groups backed a proposal that would give Washington state unilateral authority to order hazardous waste sites cleaned up, impose stiff fines and pursue criminal sanctions against polluters who balk.
The North Dakota Democrat, who was getting paid $1,500 for his remarks, clearly understands that those who drive the most are likely to balk at any gasoline tax increase.
Southmark officials admit creditors may initially balk because of the low payback, but Weiss said, "We think that we have put forward a plan that ought to be appealing," and "at the end of the day," creditors will vote to go along.
"No doubt somebody a few blocks from this General Assembly Hall, in one of this city's fashionable neighborhoods, taking cocaine in the civilized calm of his living room, would balk at this description.

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