Balk
[bɔːlk;bɔːk] or [bɔk]
解释:
(noun.) an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base.
(noun.) the area on a billiard table behind the balkline; 'a player with ball in hand must play from the balk'.
手打:洛雷塔--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside.
(v. i.) A great beam, rafter, or timber; esp., the tie-beam of a house. The loft above was called "the balks."
(v. i.) One of the beams connecting the successive supports of a trestle bridge or bateau bridge.
(v. i.) A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
(v. i.) A sudden and obstinate stop; a failure.
(v. i.) A deceptive gesture of the pitcher, as if to deliver the ball.
(v. t.) To leave or make balks in.
(v. t.) To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
(v. t.) To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
(v. t.) To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk.
(v. t.) To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to /hwart; as, to balk expectation.
(v. i.) To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
(v. i.) To stop abruptly and stand still obstinately; to jib; to stop short; to swerve; as, the horse balks.
(v. i.) To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
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同义词及近义词:
v. a. Disappoint, frustrate, defeat, foil, baffle, disconcert, thwart.
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同义词及反义词:
SYN:Estop, bar, thwart, frustrate, foil, stop, prevent, hinder, neutralize,nullify, mar, counteract, disappoint, defeat, baffle
ANT:Aid, abet, promote, advance, encourage, instigate
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例句:
- Mr. Osborne dropped it with the bitterest, deadliest pang of balked affection and revenge. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Real affection, it seemed, he could not have for me; it had been only fitful passion: that was balked; he would want me no more. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Whatever Clara's intention had been in asking to be brought hither, it was balked by the presence of the soldiers. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- How this fascination of the obvious has balked the work of the Commission I need not elaborate. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Mr. Smallweed, purposely balking himself in an aim at the trooper's head, throws the pipe on the ground and breaks it to pieces. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
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