balk
balk 英 [bɔ:k] 美 [bɔk]
n. 障碍；错误 vt. 阻止；推诿；错过 vi. 犹豫；突然止步不前
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- 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.
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- n. 障碍；错误
- vt. 阻止；推诿；错过
- vi. 犹豫；突然止步不前
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1. Another potential issue: Labor unions and governments trying to defend jobs in Europe could balk at any effort by Geely to shift jobs to China.
另一个潜在的问题是，试图保住欧洲工作岗位的工会组织和政府可能不惜任何努力阻止吉利将就业岗位转移到中国。
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2. Children may balk sometimes and probably won't always perform their jobs perfectly, but with time they'll come to realize the value of contributing.
孩子有时候也许会犹豫，可能不总能完美地完成任务，但是随着时间的流逝他们渐渐会意识到贡献的价值。
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3. And in America, we might balk at the idea of any official involvement in our decision to marry, or remarry.
在美国，任何政府官员可能卷入到我们结婚或者再 婚的想法，我们都会痛斥反对。
- balk (n.) also baulk, 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- (source also of Old Saxon balko, Danish bjelke, Old Frisian balka, Old High German balcho, German Balken "beam, rafter"), from PIE root *bhelg- "beam, plank" (source also of Latin fulcire "to prop up, support," fulcrum "bedpost;" Lithuanian balžiena "cross-bar;" and possibly Greek phalanx "trunk, log, line of battle"). Italian balco "a beam" is from Germanic (see balcony).
- 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 in one's course" (as a horse confronted with an obstacle) is late 15c.; that of "to refuse" is 1580s. Related: Balked; balking.
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