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Dave
what is the difference between baulk at and avoid? Are thye the same??
baulk at and avoid??? read this context When South Wales schoolteachers John and Hetty Watkins needed to get their ten-year old son, Paul, a cello to suit his blossoming talents, they BAULKED at the costs involved. We had a look at various dealers...
2011年1月7日 16:21
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Baulk generally means to stop and refuse to go on. Avoid implies that you keep away from the challenge, usually by an alternative means.
Say you're walking and you run into a really big wall. To baulk the obstacle would be to stop, refuse to continue, and go back. To avoid the wall would be to somehow go around the wall without dealing with it.
In your example, to baulk the costs means that the parents stopped when they saw the costs and refused to buy from those dealers. That is why they had to continue looking. If the parents avoided the costs, that means that they got a cello without paying the high costs (maybe they knew someone who gave them a discount).
2011年1月7日
baulk is BrE balk is AmE. It means 1. to not want to do or try something, because it seems difficult, unpleasant, or frightening 2. formal to stop someone or something from getting or achieving what they want
avoid means to prevent something bad from happening. from: Longman
They are not the same, but quite close in meaning. You'd better ask a nativ speaker, because I'm not sure.
2011年1月7日
In this sentence 'baulked' means 'shocked at the price and didn't want to pay it'
2011年1月8日
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