baulk
baulk 英 [bɔ:k] 美 [bɔk]
n. 错误；失败；障碍（等于balk） vt. 阻止；错过；推诿（等于balk） vi. 犹豫；（马等）突然止步不前（等于balk）
进行时:baulking 过去式:baulked 过去分词:baulked 第三人称单数:baulks 名词复数:baulks
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- n. 错误；失败；障碍（等于balk）
- vt. 阻止；错过；推诿（等于balk）
- vi. 犹豫；（马等）突然止步不前（等于balk）
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1. Its report, called Food and Climate Change, will be controversial given that many people may baulk at being told what they should eat in order to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets.
鉴于很多人可能不愿意听从被告知他们应该吃什么，以满足温室气体减排目标，此篇称为食物和气候变化的报告，将会有一番争议。
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2. You can understand, then, why she posed so easily for those wedding photos. She knows that others expect her to baulk at her own image.
我想现在你应该明白，为什么婚礼上的照片中她可以那么轻松地摆造型了。
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3. Urbane young Shanghaiers seem to baulk at the thought of breaking a sweat - not just due to a strange revulsion for discomfort, but because they tend to view it as a wholly alien concept。
彬彬有礼的上海年轻人似乎对流汗非常抵触———并不仅仅出于厌恶(锻炼所带来的)身体不适，而是他们通常认为这完全是一种格格不入的观念。
- baulk alternative spelling of balk, especially in billiards, in reference to a bad shot.
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