单词 | balkiness |
释义 | balkiness (once / 738707 pages) n WORD FAMILY balky: balkier, balkiest, balkiness+/balk: balked, balker, balking, balks, balky/balker: balkers USAGE EXAMPLESEven today, researchers remain hampered by M. leprae’s balkiness, its refusal to grow in cell culture or nearly any nonhuman animal. New York Times(Jun 30, 2014) With the steering oar permanently unshipped there was more difficulty than ever in exercising any control over the balkiness of the stubborn Mule. Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome), Down the Yellowstone(2011) But the Chinese balkiness on the issue is matched in large measure by Mr. Obama’s own constraints. New York Times(Dec 17, 2009) n likely to stop abruptly and unexpectedly Hyper intractability, intractableness the trait of being hard to influence or control |
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