Balk

(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

• 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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