英语单词 | block |
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英美音标 | 英 [blɒk] 美 [blɑːk] |
中文释义 | n.街区;木块;石块;大楼;一组;阻塞(物);障碍(物) v.阻塞 |
英语例句 | (1) Walk two blocks down the street and go past the city hall. (2) The doctors succeeded in confining the contagious disease within the block. (3) The floor was made of wooden blocks. (4) The blocks should be laid on a bed of concrete. (5) There is a block in the pipe and the water can not flow away. (6) The chief stumbling block to his promotion is his lack of qualifications. |
中文例句 | (1) 顺这条街走两个街区,过市政厅。 (2) 医生们成功地将这个传染病控制在这一街区的范围内。 (3) 地板是用木块拼成的。 (4) 石块应该固定在混凝土基座上。 (5) 管子里有阻塞物,水流不出去。 (6) 他晋升的主要障碍是他的资格不够。 |
vocabulary简明 | A block is a painted wooden cube that kids build with, or a squarish chunk of anything, like a block of cheese or cement. And if you block someone, you prevent them from going past by getting in the way. |
vocabulary扩展 | A sculptor might carve a bird out of a block of marble, and you might eat a whole block of chocolate after dinner. Another block is the row of buildings or houses between four streets: "I'm walking the dog around the block." When block is a verb it means "to obstruct," like when you block your dog from going near the cat food. All these meanings stem from the Old French root bloc, "block of wood." |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]大楼;大厦 A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them. [usu with supp]
2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]街区 A block in a town is an area of land with streets on all its sides.
3 [N-COUNT 可数名词](长方形)块,大块 A block of a substance is a large rectangular piece of it. [usu N
4 [VERB 动词]阻塞,堵塞(道路、管道等) 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. [V n] [V-ed]
5 [VERB 动词]挡住,遮住(视线) If something blocks your view, it prevents you from seeing something because it is between you and that thing. [V n]
6 [VERB 动词]堵住,阻挡,挡住(去路) If you block someone's way, you prevent them from going somewhere or entering a place by standing in front of them. [V n]
7 [VERB 动词]阻挠;阻止;妨碍 If you block something that is being arranged, you prevent it from being done. [V n]
8 [VERB 动词](体育运动中)拦截,阻截(进球、对手等) In some sports, if a player blocks a shot or kick, they stop the ball reaching its target. If one player blocks another, the first stops the second from reaching or moving with the ball. [V n]
9 [N-COUNT 可数名词](尤指按特定顺序同时售出的)大量,大批,大套(票、股票等) 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. [usu N
10 [N-COUNT 可数名词](短时间的)思维停滞,思维中断 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. [usu supp N] 11 See also:breeze-block ;building block ;roadblock ;starting block ;stumbling block ;tower block. a chip off the old block ; →see: chip ; 12 [PHRASE 短语]冒着败坏名声的风险;拿名誉(或地位)做赌注 If someone lays their head on the block, or puts their head on the block, they are risking their reputation or position by taking a particular course of action. [V inflects]
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