| 词汇 | balk |
| 词源 | balk. A balk, deriving from the Old English balca, was a ridge between two furrows made in ploughing. Since the balk was an obstacle, the word balk came to be applied figuratively to any obstacle, and to balk came to mean “to place obstacles in the way of.” The baseball term balk, an illegal movement by a pitch- er when runners are on base, comes from an obsolete meaning of balk: “to miss, slip, or fail.” |
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