balk

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(duì)

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(huì)反對(duì)動(dòng)物實(shí)驗(yàn)。

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(wàn)美元的利潤(rùn)變成了2000萬(wàn)的赤字讓人震驚。