balks

柯林斯词典

balk /bɔːk/ (also baulk) (balking,balked,balks)

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
Even biology undergraduates may balk at animal experiments. 即使是生物專業的大學生都可能會反對動物實騐。
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2400萬美元的利潤變成了2000萬的赤字讓人震驚。