n. 块；街区；大厦；障碍物
vt. 阻止；阻塞；限制
adj. 成批的，大块的；交通堵塞的
n. (Block)人名；(英、法、德、西、葡、芬、罗)布洛克
英 [blɒk] 美 [blɑk]
权威例句
- A block up the street I found a parking lot.
沿着街道往北过了一个街区，我找到了一个停车场。
来自柯林斯例句 - It started a fire in a block of flats.
大火是从一幢公寓大楼烧起的。
来自柯林斯例句 - Someone had hollowed out a large block of stone.
有人把一大块石头给凿空了。
来自柯林斯例句 - I finally hoisted him up with a block and tackle.
我最终用滑轮组把他拉了上去。
来自柯林斯例句 - The trade union block vote is an excrescence on democracy.
工会集团投票制是民主的毒瘤。
来自柯林斯例句
中文词源
block 大块
来自PIE *bhel, 膨胀，鼓起。词源同balk, 大块，障碍。
英文词源
block
**block: **[14] English borrowed _block _from Old French bloc, but its ultimate origin appears to be Germanic; French acquired it from Middle Dutch _blok _‘tree trunk’. The derived verb _block _‘impede’ first crops up in the early 15th century, but was not established until the later 16th century; it originally meant ‘put blocks [of wood] or obstacles in the way of’. _Blockade _was coined in the 17th century, perhaps on the model of ambuscade, a contemporary synonym of ambush.
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block (n.)
"solid piece," c. 1300, from Old French bloc "log, block" of wood (13c.), via Middle Dutch bloc "trunk of a tree" or Old High German bloh, from a common Germanic source, from PIE *bhlugo-, from *bhelg- "a thick plank, beam" (see balk).
Meaning "mould for a hat" is from 1570s. Slang sense of "head" is from 1630s. Extended sense of "obstruction" is first recorded 1640s. In cricket from 1825; in U.S. football from 1912. The meaning in city block is 1796, from the notion of a "compact mass" of buildings; slang meaning "fashionable promenade" is 1869.
BLOCK. A term applied in America to a square mass of houses included between four streets. It is a very useful one. [Bartlett]
block (v.)
"obstruct," 1590s, from French bloquer "to block, stop up," from Old French bloc (see block (n.)). Meaning "to make smooth or to give shape on a block" is from 1620s. Stage and theater sense is from 1961. Sense in cricket is from 1772; in U.S. football from 1889. Related: Blocked; blocking.
