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Перевод: balk
[существительное] препятствие; задержка ; невспаханная полоса земли; бревно; брус ; окантованное бревно; балка ; бимс ; [глагол] препятствовать; мешать; задерживать; игнорировать; пропускать; упускать; обходить; оставлять без внимания; уклоняться; отказываться; артачиться; упираться; не оправдать
Тезаурус:
- Set in trailer park America, shot with an arthouse eye, it has divorced mom Brooke Adams struggling with wayward daughter Ione Skye, who gets pregnant by a wacky English geologist called Dank (huh?) while the other daughter, 16-year-old newcomer Fairuza Balk, negotiates various adolescent crises.
- Management information systems directors, focusing on monthly technical performance figures, balk at spending money on security.
- Among the guests are many luminaries of Parisian society who might balk at that sort of food.
- The bureaucracy was wise to balk, if only to protect itself; the NSC, after all, was not meant to be caught up actively with either hostages or contras, and it was difficult to keep crusades covert.
- Some practices may balk at this degree of rigour, especially given the relative scarcity of trained counsellors.
- Yet most people still balk at exploring ways in which a legal regime might undermine such effects.
- Many people would balk at the thought of setting up a new business during a recession; but to embark on a new accountancy partnership when half of it is about to have a baby would surely cause the strongest to flinch.
- The purist may, however, still balk at the idea of a negative-energy field, even though to date the C- field is not known to have led to any conceptual difficulty either in classical or quantum physics.
- It is the small local business, as in the examples above of builders, carpenters and glaziers, who are most likely to balk at long-term clearance of a debt.
- Visitors balk at Britain's free-market ways if they first experience them in overpriced minicabs lurking at Heathrow airport and Victoria station, or in greedy moneychangers.
- Even as you balk to name him: who else?
- Congress may balk at the spending list.
- These economic Robespierres have got the policy initiative partly because they are ready to take risks that others balk at.
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