balk

名词 balk:

1. the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
   同义词：baulk
2. something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
   同义词：hindrance, hinderance, deterrent, impediment, baulk, check, handicap
3. one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
   同义词：rafter, baulk
4. an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base

动词 balk:

1. refuse to comply
   同义词：resist, baulk, jib

1. I don't think it is correct of you to say that America is a balk to world peace.
   我认为你说美国是世界和平的障碍是不对的。
2. He balked me to carry out my plan.
   他阻止我实施我的计划。
3. We are balked to do what we want to do.
   有人阻止我们去做我们想做的事情。
4. The high price is a balk to me.
   对我来说，价格太高是一个障碍。

balk 也作 baulk

v.（动词）
balked 也作 baulked balk.ing baulk.ing balks baulks
v.intr.（不及物动词）
To stop short and refuse to go on:
突然停止并拒绝前进：
例句：
The horse balked at the jump.
这匹马突然停下来不前进

To refuse obstinately or abruptly:
拒绝：固执地或突然地拒绝：
例句：
She balked at the very idea of compromise.
她固执地拒绝妥协的想法

Sports To make an incomplete or misleading motion.
【体育运动】 做假动作：做不完全或误导的动作
Baseball To make an illegal motion before pitching, allowing one or more base runners to advance one base.
【棒球】 做犯规的假动作：在投球之前做出非法动作，使得一个或多个跑垒员前进一个垒位
v.tr.（及物动词）
To put obstacles in the way of; check or thwart.See Synonyms at frustrate
阻碍，阻挠：在路上放障碍物；阻碍或使受挫参见 frustrate
Archaic To let go by; miss.
【古语】 放过；失去
n.（名词）
A hindrance, check, or defeat.
障碍、阻碍或挫折
Sports An incomplete or misleading motion, especially an illegal move made by a baseball pitcher.
【体育运动】 非法假动作：不完全的或误导的动作，尤指棒球投手做出的非法动作
Games One of the spaces between the cushion and the balk line on a billiard table.
【游戏】 开球区：台球桌的橡皮边和阻碍线之间的空间之一

An unplowed strip of land.
未犁之地：土地的未耕带
A ridge between furrows.
垄：沟与沟之间的垄
A wooden beam or rafter.
横梁：木头梁或椽子

来源：
Middle English balken [to plow up in ridges]
中古英语 balken [耕犁出垄]
from balk [ridge]
源自 balk [垄]
from Old English balca
源自 古英语 balca
and from Old Norse balkr [beam]
并源自 古斯堪的纳维亚语 balkr [横梁]

【引伸】
balk.er
n.（名词）