block

1. N-COUNT A block of a substance is a large rectangular piece of it. 大塊

...a block of ice. …一大塊冰。

2. N-COUNT A block of apartments or offices is a large building containing them. 大樓

...a white-painted apartment block. …一幢漆成白色的公寓樓。

3. N-COUNT A block in a town or city is an area of land with streets on all its sides, or the area or distance between such streets. 街區

He walked around the block three times. 他繞著這個街區走了3圈。

She walked four blocks down High Street. 她沿著高街走了4個街區。

4. N-COUNT Blocks are wooden or plastic cubes, such as those used as toys by children. 積木

5. V-T To block a road, channel, or pipe means to put an object across it or in it so that nothing can pass through it or along it. 堵塞; 封鎖

Some students today blocked a main road that cuts through the centre of the city. 一些學生今天封鎖了穿過市中心的公路。

6. V-T If something blocks your view, it prevents you from seeing something because it is between you and that thing. 擋住

...a row of spruce trees that blocked his view of the long north slope of the mountain. …擋住了他看曏山北長坡眡線的一排雲杉。

7. V-T If you block someone's way, you prevent them from going somewhere or entering a place by standing in front of them. 阻擋

I started to move around him, but he blocked my way. 我開始繞開他走，但他擋著我的路。

8. V-T If you block something that is being arranged, you prevent it from being done. 阻止

For years the country has tried to block imports of various cheap foreign products. 多年以來，這個國家曾試圖阻止多種外國廉價産品的進口。

9. N-COUNT A block of something such as tickets or shares is a large quantity of them, especially when they are all sold at the same time and are in a particular sequence or order. 一大曡 (一次大量購買的入場券、股票等)[usu N 'of' n]

Those booking a block of seats get them at reduced rates. 那些一次預訂大量座位的人可以享受折釦價。

10. N-COUNT If you have a mental block or a block, you are temporarily unable to do something that you can normally do which involves using, thinking about, or remembering something. (思維、記憶等的) 阻滯

I cannot do maths. I've got a mental block about it. 我做不了數學。我一做就大腦一片空白。

11. →see also stumbling block