balking
常见例句
- Banks are balking at rewriting mortgages, despite incentives to do so.
银行正在逃避重写抵押贷款,尽管他们有动机这么做。 - I asked him to sit down and he, after balking a second, sat quietly in the chair with his hands sandwiched by two legs, nervously twisting his fingers.
我请他坐下来,他迟疑了一下然后默默地坐到了椅子上,双手放在两腿间,十指不安地绕动着,看得出他有点儿紧张。 - When the trend turns up, it will be weak, with continued high unemployment discouraging consumers from spending and businesses balking at major purchases until they ve cleared their books of debt.
这种趋势一开始会很微弱,随着失业率的增高,会使消费者对开支和商业上的大宗购买感到沮丧。 直到他们清理了自己的债务册。 - Republicans and many conservative Democrats are balking on the cost of the reform, which could reach one trillion dollars over the next several years.
- The biggest reason given by clients for balking at a conversion is the immediate tax hit.
FORBES: Magazine Article - Predictably, those who are being asked to tie their pay to performance are balking.
FORBES: 'No Budget, No Pay' - Forcing Our Elected Officials To Work On 'Pay for Performance'? - On the health fund, it is the richer states such as Bavaria that are balking.
ECONOMIST: Almost a year on, the wheels seem to be falling off 返回 balking