balking

柯林斯詞典

balk /b??k/ (also baulk) (balking,balked,balks)

• 1. V-I If you balk at something, you definitely do not want to do it or to let it happen. 阻止; 反對

  Even biology undergraduates may balk at animal experiments. 即使是生物專業(yè)的大學(xué)生都可能會反對動物實驗。

  Last October the bank balked, alarmed that a $24M profit had turned into a $20M deficit. 去年十月這家銀行突然虧空，原本2400萬美元的利潤變成了2000萬的赤字讓人震驚。

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