balked

/bawk/US // bɔk //UK // (bɔːk, bɔːlk) //

逡巡不前,弃权,退缩了,逡巡不前的

Definitions

v.无主动词 verb

1
- : to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified: He balked at making the speech.
- : to stop short and stubbornly refuse to go on.
- : Baseball. to commit a balk.

v.有主动词 verb

1
- : to place an obstacle in the way of; hinder; thwart: a sudden reversal that balked her hopes.
- : Archaic. to let slip; fail to use: to balk an opportunity.

n.名词 noun

verbthwart

Synonyms

Even so, at least one juror apparently balked at convicting a man for violating wildlife protection laws by protecting wildlife.
If I balked at an act or found it difficult to perform, I was “punished” for my defiance (which is the nature of a BDSM scene).
Gerawan consented, but after a few months at the table, UFW balked again.
When Hayes balked at giving up her child, she claims Romney threatened she could be excommunicated if she refused.
He initially balked, but they insisted and he was soon at Metropolitan Hospital.
He seemed to intimate that he understood all that was passing in her mind, and was not balked by sprightly appearances.
This was effected, and Louis Philippe was balked of his desire to interfere in Portugal to promote a reactionary policy.
She had come suddenly upon the stone wall which had balked all her efforts.
And so Marishka, once more balked in her enterprise, went back to the Harim.
Cursing furiously, Wade drove him at it again, and again the gelding balked.

/bawk/US // bɔk //UK // (bɔːk, bɔːlk) //

逡巡不前,弃权,退缩了,逡巡不前的

v.无主动词 verb

1
- : to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified: He balked at making the speech.
- : to stop short and stubbornly refuse to go on.
- : Baseball. to commit a balk.

v.有主动词 verb

1
- : to place an obstacle in the way of; hinder; thwart: a sudden reversal that balked her hopes.
- : Archaic. to let slip; fail to use: to balk an opportunity.

n.名词 noun

verbthwart

Synonyms

Even so, at least one juror apparently balked at convicting a man for violating wildlife protection laws by protecting wildlife.
If I balked at an act or found it difficult to perform, I was “punished” for my defiance (which is the nature of a BDSM scene).
Gerawan consented, but after a few months at the table, UFW balked again.
When Hayes balked at giving up her child, she claims Romney threatened she could be excommunicated if she refused.
He initially balked, but they insisted and he was soon at Metropolitan Hospital.
He seemed to intimate that he understood all that was passing in her mind, and was not balked by sprightly appearances.
This was effected, and Louis Philippe was balked of his desire to interfere in Portugal to promote a reactionary policy.
She had come suddenly upon the stone wall which had balked all her efforts.
And so Marishka, once more balked in her enterprise, went back to the Harim.
Cursing furiously, Wade drove him at it again, and again the gelding balked.