balking

基本解釋

Banks are balking at rewriting mortgages, despite incentives to do so.
銀行正在逃避重寫抵押貸款，盡管他們有動機這么做。
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.
我請他坐下來，他遲疑了一下然后默默地坐到了椅子上，雙手放在兩腿間，十指不安地繞動著，看得出他有點兒緊張。
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.
這種趨勢一開始會很微弱，隨著失業(yè)率的增高，會使消費者對開支和商業(yè)上的大宗購買感到沮喪。直到他們清理了自己的債務(wù)冊。

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.
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Predictably, those who are being asked to tie their pay to performance are balking.
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On the health fund, it is the richer states such as Bavaria that are balking.
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If you balk at something, you definitely do not want to do it or to let it happen.