• n. 障礙；錯(cuò)誤
• vt. 阻止；推諉；錯(cuò)過(guò)
• 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

來(lái)自PIE *bhel(2), 膨脹，鼓，詞源同bole, 樹(shù)干，原指樹(shù)干堆起來(lái)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(tīng)，hark, 聽(tīng).

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.

1. To emancipate all mankind, we will balk at no sacrifice . even that of our lives.

為了全人類(lèi)的解放, 即使?fàn)奚苍谒幌?

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2. Even biology undergraduates may balk at animal experiments.

面對(duì)動(dòng)物實(shí)驗(yàn)，哪怕是生物專(zhuān)業(yè)的大學(xué)生也會(huì)畏縮。

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3. Even a single man bad been able to balk him.

一個(gè)人就把他難倒了.

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4. That was a balk to us.

那對(duì)我們是個(gè)挫折.

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5. Balk the purpose of those who threaten us.

遏止那些威脅我們的人的目的.

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