音标:[bɔːlk; bɔːk] ;
n.
垄,埂,田埂
大木
【建筑学】梁木,粗枋,粗制的方材;系梁
【军事工程】(军用梁的)主横梁
阻碍,障碍;挫折
【棒球】投手佯投犯规动作;(投手的)佯投,假投
【台球】
开球区
台盘限制区
[废语]失误,错误,过失;疏忽;遗漏
vi.
(遇到障碍时)停止并拒绝向前,中止并拒绝做(指定的事情);在…面前犹豫,踌躇,畏缩,从…退缩,回避(通常与at连用):
He balked at making the suggestion.
他畏缩不肯提建议。
(马、驴等)逡巡不前,突然拒绝前行(通常与at连用):
The horse balked at the high fence.
马在高栅栏前逡巡不前。
【棒球】(投手)做犯规假动作,佯投(或假投)违例
vt.
漏掉,失掉,(无意中)错过;放过;未加利用,让(机会等)溜过:
to balk a golden opportunity
错过一个绝好的机会
阻碍,阻止;妨碍;挫败;使落空:
be balked in one's purpose
达不到目的
The police balked the attempt to kidnap the child.
警方挫败了诱拐小孩的企图。
推诿(责任等);故意回避(问题):
He balked his responsibility.
他推卸自己的责任。
to balk the question
故意回避问题
【棒球】(因佯投犯规)使(跑垒员)从三垒得分
[废语]漏耕;在(田里)做田埂,犁(地)成垄
近义词:
frustrate

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学英语单词
a whale of a
adhesive dissolving tank
ageing-resistant grease
Almenara
Amdassa
apostilb international
approximate reasoning
Archer City
aromatic polysulphonamide fibre
asbc
attalids
auger injected pile
bar-shear
basic borrow privilege
biometric reader
blue diaper
buy-programs
coasts
concrete texture curing machine
convitious
core logging
crapitalists
cuesta scarp
depilated hide
discussion on ceramics
driver's tool
dysplasia of rib
Efco-Northrup furnace
El Piquete
elastances
envelope barrier
excess-electron
excitation interference
F. C. R.
favours
focus report
format procedure
fritillaria roylei
glod
gravimetric unit
guaranty saving bank
hamshackled
have rats in the loft
inbreaking
Indong
isopto-eserine
Kamiyaku
Katav-Ivanovsk
kellogg briand pact
latch gear
Leptictidae
lifeboat marking
lives up
male schistosomiais
Mata ebenos
meowling
Microantigorite
mud press
muddly
multiple use card
Nazιmiye
neat gasoline
neutrophil
Nursery-line
odrich
onia
ovario-abdominal pregnancy
perfuming cosmetic
plain points
poreforming
pretentorina
product comparison
protective embankment
psychological skill training
public wharf
purple gentian
reasonable care
relation of betweenness
rjh
scavenge belt
sedenes
sidestreet
sit-upon
skiving machine
slash-sawing
Slavonice
speed gun
St Bernard
standard modular system of package
sylvestren
technical equation
Thea japonica
transverse stereographic projection
unit society
upper door sash
uromyces cellicarpae
verticillate phyllotaxy
waste disposal building
water jacket safety valve
weak extension
zinko