Now I'm not telling you boys to go back and do the work if you don't want to. Use your own judgment. But fellows that balk on a job never go far. A balky man is like a balky horse, everybody gets rid of him as quickly as they can. A quitter is never given a good job. They always keep him in a place where it doesn't make any difference whether he quits or not."
The leader of the boys said: "Aw, piffle, cut it out. We might as well be scrubbing the floor as listening to this talk. Come on, fellows." He led them back, one of them protesting that he would never scrub a floor for any man.英文原著 · 《The Iron Puddler》
Bud fed her the gas and took a run at the hill. She went up like a thoroughbred and died at the top, just when the road had dipped into the descent. Bud sent her down hill on compression, but at the bottom she refused to find her voice again when he turned on the switch and pressed the accelerator. She simply rolled down to the first incline and stopped there like a balky mule.英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》
I am not an incendiary, but I hate bigotry. I don't call those incendiaries very good Christians who, when they set fire to the martyrs, touched off the fagots at the bottom, so as to make them go slow. Besides, knowledge works down easier than it does up. Education must proceed from the more enlightened down to the more ignorant strata. If you want better common schools, raise the standard of the colleges, and so on. Build your fire on top. Let your light shine. I have seen people build a fire under a balky horse; but he wouldn't go, he'd be a horse-martyr first.英文原著 · 《The Complete Writings-1》
AI 补充例句（附中文翻译）
The farmer struggled to lead his balky mule back to the barn after a long day.忙碌了一整天后，农夫费力地把那头倔强的骡子牵回了谷仓。
My balky old computer often freezes right when I am in the middle of writing.我那台不听使唤的老旧电脑总是在我写文章写到一半时死机。
After several attempts to start the balky engine, the mechanic finally identified the loose wire.在几次尝试启动那台不听使唤的发动机后，机械师终于发现了那根松动的电线。