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block

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ldoce_029_eblock1 /blɒk $ blɑːk/ ●●● S2 W2 noun [countableC] → bloc
1  block_ice.jpg SOLID MASSPIECEsolid material 固體物質 a piece of hard material such as wood or stone with straight sides 一塊〔指木頭、石頭等有直邊的堅硬物體〕 → breeze-block, building block, cinder block
block of
a block of ice
一塊冰
a wall made of concrete blocks
由混凝土塊砌成的牆
► see thesaurus at piece →5  See picture of breeze-block BrE【英】/cinder block AmE【美】煤渣磚, building blocks 積木, knife block 刀架, a block of ice 一塊冰 →4  See picture of 見圖 block →4  See picture of 見圖 ICE 1 →5 see picture at 見圖 piece1
2  STREET/STREETSstreets/area 街道/區域
a) American EnglishAmE the distance along a city street from where one street crosses it to the next 街段，一段街區〔兩條平行街道之間的一段〕
Head for 44th Street, a few blocks east of Sixth Avenue.
往44號街走，從第六大街往東走幾個街區就是。
The church is down the block.
教堂就在這個街區那頭。
b) TTRAREAthe four city streets that form a square around an area of buildings 街區〔四條街道之内的區域〕
Let’s walk round the block.
我們繞着街區走走吧。
She grew up playing with the other kids on the block.
她是和街區裏其他孩子一起玩大的。
c) AusE a large piece of land 一大塊土地
a ten-acre block near the city
離城市不遠的一塊十英畝土地
3  LARGE BUILDINGlarge building 大樓TBB a large building divided into separate parts 棟，座，幢
block of
a block of flats
一棟住宅樓
an office block
一棟辦公大樓
an apartment block
一棟公寓樓
the school science block
學校的理科大樓
4  QUANTITY OF THINGSAMOUNTquantity of things 數量 a quantity of things of the same kind, considered as a single unit 一組，一批，一套，一疊
block of
New employees receive a block of shares in the firm.
新僱員可以分得公司的一份股票。
Set aside blocks of time for doing your homework.
要騰出一段時間做家庭作業。
5. block booking/voting GROUP OF PEOPLEan arrangement that is made for a whole group to buy something or to vote together 團體訂購/集體投票
Examples from the Corpus
block booking/voting• Dress is formal and block bookings are available.
6  UNABLE TO THINKinability to think 不能思考 [usually singular]FORGET the temporary loss of your normal ability to think, learn, write etc 思維阻滞〔指暫時失去思考、學習、寫作等能力的現象〕
I have a mental block whenever I try to remember my password.
我每次試圖回憶密碼的時候，思維就會阻塞。
After his second novel, Garland had writer’s block (=he could not write anything).
嘉蘭寫完第二部小說之後陷入了創作瓶頸。
7  STOPPING MOVEMENTstopping movement 阻止行動 [usually singular]PREVENT something that prevents movement or progress 阻礙，障礙
block to
a major block to progress
進步的重大阻礙
→ roadblock, stumbling block
8. punishment 懲罰the block SHSCin the past, a solid block of wood on which someone’s head was cut off as a punishment 〔古時斬首用的〕墊頭木
Examples from the Corpus
the block• He was prepared to go to the block for his beliefs.
9  put your head/neck on the block DO something/TAKE ACTIONSAY/STATEto risk destroying other people’s opinion of you or losing your job by doing or saying something 拿自己來冒險〔指冒着敗壞名譽或丢工作的危險去做某事或說某話〕
I’m not prepared to put my head on the block for him.
我可不願意爲了他拿自己來冒險。
10. SPORTsport 體育DS a movement in sport that stops an opponent going forward or playing the ball forward 攔截，阻擋（動作）
11  sell 出售go on the block to be sold, especially at an auction 在出售，在拍賣
$500 million worth of art will go on the block.
價值5億美元的藝術品將要拍賣。
→ block capitals, tower block, → be a chip off the old block at chip1(7), → I’ll knock your block off at knock1(24)
n COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 3: a large building divided into separate parts
types of block
a block of flats British EnglishBrE
Three new blocks of flats were built on the land.
an apartment block
I met him at his apartment block in Manhattan.
an office block
She works in a 27-storey office block.
a tower block (=very high and usually in a poor area)
She lived on the 17th floor of a tower block in East London.
a tenement block (=an apartment block, usually in a poor area – used especially in Scotland)
We had a tiny flat in an Edinburgh tenement block.
a high-rise block (=very high)
The area is full of monstrous concrete high-rise blocks.
a multi-storey block (=having many levels)
Many shops and offices have been rebuilt in high multi-storey blocks.
Examples from the Corpus
block• The house at Number 14 was replaced by a block of flats.• an apartment block• During the first Cold War years, the capitalist block was indeed seeking the downfall of the war-exhausted Soviet Union.• Concrete blocks were used by most builders in the 1960s when constructing office buildings.• Moulded, splinter-proof cutting blocks, called Barboards, are also available.• The Cannon halted rush-hour traffic as it rattled the windows of every car and skyscraper for blocks around.• The fish were lying on huge blocks of ice to keep them cold.• The ice was cut into blocks and stored in a special shed.• Beware of becoming so fixated on this one position that you acquire a mental block against progressing further.• His studios are on the tenth floor of an office block overlooking the river.• There's another new office block going up behind the station.• But with a deli on every other block purveying all sorts of ethnic breads, l never baked a single loaf.• Many of the families on our block are Hispanic-Americans.• One stumbling block can be the kind of computer you own.• We went for a walk around the block.• She lived three blocks away from me when we were kids.• It's three blocks to the store from here.• To the east is a landscape of concrete tower blocks.• Only from the windows of a derelict tower block squatted by women was there any deliberately hostile response.
block of• Jason says he can get a block of seats for the concert.• We were given a block of shares in the company.• a block of ice
mental block• Beware of becoming so fixated on this one position that you acquire a mental block against progressing further.• Their mocking faces caused a mental block - or a block somewhere else.• I can't remember his name - I always have a mental block when I try to remember it.• Most of the blocks mentioned here are at the physical level, but the emotional and mental blocks are equally important.• She developed a complete mental block against her pregnancy, and concealed it until four days before she went into labour.• I have a complete mental block when it comes to computers.• Spring focus: 2B Chuck Knoblauch claims he received help during the offseason with his mental block on routine throws.• With the uh, mental block.
block2 ●●● S3 verb [transitiveT]
1  (also block up)PREVENT to prevent anything moving through a space by being or placing something across it or in it 阻擋，堵塞
A fallen tree is blocking the road.
一棵倒下的樹把路阻斷了。
The sink’s blocked up.
水槽堵住了。
2  block somebody’s way/path/exit/escape etc to stand in front of someone, so that they cannot go past 擋住某人的去路/路/出口/逃跑的路等
I tried to get through, but there were people blocking my way.
我想過去，但是有人擋着路。
3  STOP something THAT IS HAPPENINGto stop something happening, developing, or succeeding 阻止，妨礙，阻撓
The Senate blocked publication of the report.
參議院阻止這個報告發表。
laws designed to block imports of cheap tobacco
旨在阻撓廉價煙草進口的法規
4  block somebody’s view to be in front of someone, so that they cannot see something 擋住某人的視線
The huge building across the street blocked our view of the sea.
馬路對面那幢巨大的樓房擋住了我們看海的視線。
5  (also block out) to stop light reaching a place 擋住〔光線〕
Can you move? You’re blocking my light.
你挪一挪好嗎？你把光線擋住了。
6  to stop a ball, a blow etc from getting to where your opponent wants it to 阻截，攔截〔對方的擊球等〕
a shot blocked by the goalkeeper
被守門員攔截的射門
7 block somebody/something ↔ in phrasal verbphr v 
a) to park your car too close to another car, so that the other one cannot drive away 〔因爲靠得太近而〕堵住〔别人的汽車〕
b) to paint or draw simple shapes or areas of colour 畫…的草圖
I’ll just block in the main buildings.
我就勾畫一下主要的建築物。
Examples from the Corpus
block in• By March 31 Gamsakhurdia forces were said to be in retreat although railways and roads were still blocked.• Patients should not be discharged without such arrangements, but nor should beds be blocked unnecessarily.• Trapped between inadequate beliefs and unwarranted apprehensions, they find the path to high performance blocked.• Place frozen block of spinach in greased 1-quart casserole.• Local anesthetics may block impulse replication in mid-axon.• The concrete block shell was in place by early 1992 ready for the 25-week facing brickwork stage to begin.• He was among 20 inmates who were moved between jail blocks that morning in preparation for court appearances.• However, as a woman, I am often disappointed by the stumbling blocks put in the way of performance poets.
8 block sth↔ off phrasal verbphr v TTRSCPto completely close something such as a road or an opening 封閉，封鎖〔道路、入口等〕
Police blocked off the city centre streets.
警方封鎖了市中心的街道。
The fireplace had been blocked off.
壁爐已經封起來了。
Examples from the Corpus
block off• When they did, traffic got worse; then they blocked it off and traffic improved.• The service block comes off at a right angle at the back and forms a sort of court where you arrive.• I saw the car away up the block, turning off Fifth, probably coming back to inspect their work.• It's a good idea, but why block it off for certain limited hours?• The Scarlet Letter blocks went off in March.• They had blocked the street off, rather as if an armed siege was in progress.• The cell block stood just off the L-shaped charge room, a corridor almost completely without daylight.• It would be easy, Wheeler said, to block the ditch off to trap the pollutant.
9 block sth↔ out 
a) PREVENTto stop light reaching a place 擋住，遮住〔光線〕
There was a heavy curtain blocking out the light.
一幅厚厚的窗簾擋住了光線。
b) FORGETto stop yourself thinking about something or remembering it 不去想，抹去
a memory so terrible that she tried to block it out
她努力想抹去的可怕記憶
Examples from the Corpus
block out• But I can block everything out.• It was so horrific, I think my memory has blocked it out.• So at the Washington game two nights later I decided to block it out.• I've just blocked it out and it hasn't changed my attitude to cars, except that they're not safe enough.• Though she seemed not to notice them, apparently had the ability to block them out, even to forget about them.• She had blocked him out since his mention of the two unpublished novels.• He said it could follow an incident so dire that the mind had to block it out, sometimes along with other things.• Every word stops me turning away and closing my eyes, to block it out, to let me retreat into sleep.
Examples from the Corpus
block• But you may find the road blocked.• Drugs that block acetylcholine interfere with memory.• The sink is blocked again.• Some small villages in the northern Andes were left isolated as roads were blocked by slides.• The deal was blocked by the chairman, who was unwilling to commit so much company money to a risky investment.• The view was blocked by two ugly high-rise apartment buildings.• a blocked currency• Britain has threatened to block new EU legislation on human rights.• Hundreds of protesters blocked the entrance to the President's palace.• The city council blocked the idea for a new shopping mall.• A big truck had turned over on its side, and it was blocking the road.• Having blocked two attacking techniques, the defender counters with a double punch to his opponent's face.• The accident has blocked two lanes of traffic on the freeway.• Which of these have blocked your growth?
From Longman Business Dictionary
blockblock1 /blɒkblɑːk/ noun [countableC]
1FINANCE a large number of shares in a particular company held by one owner or traded at one time. A block of shares usually involves 10,000 shares or more
The company paid C$17.5 million to acquire a block of 1,224,489 shares.
A 10 million-share block trade in Avon at 39½ excited traders early in the day.
Wall Street’s best-known and most aggressive block trader
2PROPERTY a large building divided into separate parts
a block of apartments
office blocks
blockblock2 verb [transitiveT]ECONOMICS
if a government or other authority blocks something, they prevent it happening, developing, or succeeding
The French government blocked the import of New Zealand agricultural products into the Common Market.
Origin block1
(1300-1400) Old French bloc, from Middle Dutch blok

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