balk
英 [b??lk; b??k]
美[b?k]
- n. 障礙；錯(cuò)誤
- vt. 阻止；推諉；錯(cuò)過
- vi. 猶豫；突然止步不前
- n. (Balk)人名；(英)鮑克；(瑞典)巴爾克；(法、德、俄、芬)巴爾克
暢通詞匯低頻詞GRETEM8
詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱單數(shù):?balks;過去式:?balked;過去分詞:?balked;現(xiàn)在分詞:?balking;
助記提示
1. block, balcony => balk => balky.
2. PIE *bhelg- "a thick plank, beam, plank" => PIE *bhlug- => block.
3. PIE *bhelg- "a thick plank, beam, plank" => Proto-Germanic *balk- => balk, balcony.
4. PIE *bhelg- "a thick plank, beam, plank" (cf. Latin fulcire "to prop up, support," fulcrum "bedpost").
5. 木板所起的作用不外乎就是隔離、阻擋和支撐、支持兩個(gè)作用。
6. => ridge, bank.
2. PIE *bhelg- "a thick plank, beam, plank" => PIE *bhlug- => block.
3. PIE *bhelg- "a thick plank, beam, plank" => Proto-Germanic *balk- => balk, balcony.
4. PIE *bhelg- "a thick plank, beam, plank" (cf. Latin fulcire "to prop up, support," fulcrum "bedpost").
5. 木板所起的作用不外乎就是隔離、阻擋和支撐、支持兩個(gè)作用。
6. => ridge, bank.
中文詞源
balk 畏縮不前
來自PIE *bhel(2), 膨脹，鼓，詞源同bole, 樹干，原指樹干堆起來的障礙物，后指障礙，令人畏懼的東西。-k, 硬化音，表強(qiáng)調(diào)，比較hear, 聽，hark, 聽.
英英釋意
- 1. the area on a billiard table behind the balkline;
- "a player with ball in hand must play from the balk"
- 2. something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
- 3. one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- 4. an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
英文詞源
- balk
- balk: [OE] There are two separate strands of meaning in balk, or baulk, as it is also spelled. When it first entered English in the 9th century, from Old Norse bálkr, it meant a ‘ridge of land, especially one between ploughed furrows’, from which the modern sense ‘stumbling block, obstruction’ developed. It is not until about 1300 that the meaning ‘beam of timber’ appears in English, although it was an established sense of the Old Norse word’s Germanic ancestor *balkon (source also of English balcony).
The common element of meaning in these two strands is something like ‘bar’, which may have been present in the word’s ultimate Indo- European base *bhalg- (possible source of Greek phálagx ‘log, phalanx’).
=> balcony, phalanx - balk (n.)
- 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- (cognates: Old Saxon balko, Danish bjelke, Old Frisian balka, Old High German balcho, German Balken "beam, rafter"), from PIE *bhelg- "beam, plank" (cognates: Latin fulcire "to prop up, support," fulcrum "bedpost;" Lithuanian balziena "cross-bar;" and possibly Greek phalanx "trunk, log, line of battle"). Modern senses are figurative, representing the balk as a hindrance or obstruction (see balk (v.)). Baseball sense is first attested 1845.
- 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" (as a horse confronted with an obstacle) is late 15c.; that of "to refuse" is 1580s. Related: Balked; balking.
實(shí)用場(chǎng)景例句
- Even biology undergraduates may balk at animal experiments...
- 面對(duì)動(dòng)物實(shí)驗(yàn)，哪怕是生物專業(yè)的大學(xué)生也會(huì)畏縮。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- Last October the bank balked, alarmed that a $24m profit had turned into a $20m deficit.
- 去年10月，由于對(duì)2,400萬美元的利潤(rùn)變成了2,000萬的虧損感到擔(dān)心，這家銀行畏縮了。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- He shored up the wall with a thick balk of wood.
- 他用一根粗大的木頭把墻撐住.
期刊摘選
- A player with ball in hand must play from the balk.
- 拿球的選手必須從開球區(qū)開始打.
期刊摘選
- Officials who once wooed foreign investors increasingly balk at approving new deals.
- 那些力圖吸引外國(guó)投資者的官員,也越來越不敢批準(zhǔn)新的交易.
期刊摘選
- Yet the more docile horse would balk every time he came to the edge.
- 然而那匹溫順的馬每當(dāng)走到壕溝邊緣的時(shí)候,都躑躅不前.
期刊摘選
- We get strong indications that his agent would balk at that request.
- 我們得到的強(qiáng)烈暗示是他的經(jīng)紀(jì)人會(huì)回避那個(gè)要求.
期刊摘選
- It's all dead easy if Rosy don't balk when the flag drops.
- 在要行動(dòng)時(shí)如果羅西不壞事那絕對(duì)不是難事.
期刊摘選
- Many people balk at this danger.
- 許多人看到這種危險(xiǎn)便畏懼不前.
期刊摘選
- They often still balk at being stigmatized as weird.
- 實(shí)際上,他們依然害怕別人指責(zé)自己“怪里怪氣”.
期刊摘選
- With a wife to divorce, Pavarotti not balk at paying the high costs of divorce.
- 為了跟發(fā)妻離婚, 帕瓦羅蒂不惜付出高額的離婚費(fèi).
期刊摘選
- That was a balk to us.
- 那對(duì)我們是個(gè)挫折.
辭典例句
- Balk production, are chosen strictly controlled, so that their products can come to perfection.
- 每件產(chǎn)品的生產(chǎn), 均精挑細(xì)選,嚴(yán)格把關(guān), 使產(chǎn)品更臻完美.
期刊摘選
- Factors mainly affecting soil water characteristic curve are soil texture, structure and balk density.
- 影響水分特征曲線的因素主要是質(zhì)地 、 結(jié)構(gòu)和容重.
期刊摘選
- But if the price of good relations with Russia is snubbing Georgia, many Lithuanians will balk.
- 但是,如果與俄羅斯建立良好關(guān)系的代價(jià)是冷落格魯吉亞, 許多立陶宛人將會(huì)猶豫.
期刊摘選
- Make not a balk of good ground.
- 良機(jī)莫失.
期刊摘選
- People who think nothing of entering passwords balk at the idea of having their eyeballs scanned.
- 那些把輸入口令不當(dāng)作一碼事的人會(huì)排斥對(duì)其眼球進(jìn)行掃描的想法.
期刊摘選
- It was a great balk to him that he did not comply with my request.
- 你不順從我的要求,使他大失所望.
期刊摘選
- When I about giving up unnecessary shopping or clothes or shoes, many people balk.
- 當(dāng)我談?wù)摲艞壊槐匾馁?gòu)物或衣服或鞋子, 很多人猶豫不前.
期刊摘選
- Balk the purpose of those who threaten us.
- 遏止那些威脅我們的人的目的.
辭典例句
- Even a single man bad been able to balk him.
- 一個(gè)人就把他難倒了.
辭典例句
- And as usual, those in the audience who balk at showboating can simply close their eyes.
- 和往常一樣, 這些坐在包廂里的觀眾只需閉上他們的眼睛享受即可.
期刊摘選
- The high price is a balk to me.
- 對(duì)我來說,價(jià)格太高是一個(gè)障礙.
期刊摘選
- My horse jump across the deep ravine, but all the others balk.
- 我的馬躍過深谷, 但其余的馬都突然停止不動(dòng).
期刊摘選
- Have you ever worked with a therapist, or would you balk at that?
- 你和治療師工作過嗎?你回避他們 嗎 ?
電影對(duì)白
- People may balk at the sight of a sea of wind turbines.
- 面對(duì)一大片渦輪機(jī)海洋,人們可能會(huì)感覺不那么舒服.
期刊摘選
- To emancipate all mankind, we will balk at no sacrifice . even that of our lives.
- 為了全人類的解放, 即使?fàn)奚苍谒幌?
《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
- The more European voters balk at economic reform, the more politicians yammer on about values.
- 畏懼經(jīng)濟(jì)改革的歐洲選民越多, 政治家們大談特談價(jià)值觀的情況也就會(huì)越多.
期刊摘選
- To stop short and turn restively from side to side ; balk.
- 徘徊不前停止不前且躊躇不前; 畏縮不前.
期刊摘選
- Even biology undergraduates may balk at animal experiments.
- 面對(duì)動(dòng)物實(shí)驗(yàn)，哪怕是生物專業(yè)的大學(xué)生也會(huì)畏縮。
辭典例句