block
Word family noun block blockage blockade blockerblockingblock and tackleblockboardblockbusterblockbustingblockheadblockholeblockhouseblockshipblockworkadjective blocked unblocked blockedblockishblockyverb block unblock blockade
Buildings, Sport
ldoce_029_eblock1 /blɒk $ blɑːk/ ●●● S2 W2 noun [countableC] → bloc1 
SOLID MASSPIECEsolid material 固体物质 a piece of hard material such as wood or stone with straight sides 一块〔指木头、石头等有直边的坚硬物体〕 → breeze-block, building block, cinder block
SOLID MASSPIECEsolid material 固体物质 a piece of hard material such as wood or stone with straight sides 一块〔指木头、石头等有直边的坚硬物体〕 → breeze-block, building block, cinder blockblock of
a block of ice
一块冰
a wall made of concrete blocks
► see thesaurus at piece →5 see picture at 见图 piece1 由混凝土块砌成的墙
2 STREET/STREETSstreets/area 街道/区域
a) American EnglishAmE the distance along a city street from where one street crosses it to the next 街段，一段街区〔两条平行街道之间的一段〕
Head for 44th Street, a few blocks east of Sixth Avenue.
往44号街走，从第六大街往东走几个街区就是。
The church is down the block.
教堂就在这个街区那头。
b) TTRAREAthe four city streets that form a square around an area of buildings 街区〔四条街道之内的区域〕
Let’s walk round the block.
我们绕着街区走走吧。
She grew up playing with the other kids on the block.
她是和街区里其他孩子一起玩大的。
c) AusE a large piece of land 一大块土地
a ten-acre block near the city
离城市不远的一块十英亩土地
3 LARGE BUILDINGlarge building 大楼TBB a large building divided into separate parts 栋，座，幢
block of
a block of flats
一栋住宅楼
an office block
一栋办公大楼
an apartment block
一栋公寓楼
the school science block
学校的理科大楼
4 QUANTITY OF THINGSAMOUNTquantity of things 数量 a quantity of things of the same kind, considered as a single unit 一组，一批，一套，一叠
block of
New employees receive a block of shares in the firm.
新雇员可以分得公司的一份股票。
Set aside blocks of time for doing your homework.
要腾出一段时间做家庭作业。
5. block booking/voting GROUP OF PEOPLEan arrangement that is made for a whole group to buy something or to vote together 团体订购/集体投票
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 思维阻滞〔指暂时失去思考、学习、写作等能力的现象〕
I have a mental block whenever I try to remember my password.
我每次试图回忆密码的时候，思维就会阻塞。
After his second novel, Garland had writer’s block (=he could not write anything).
嘉兰写完第二部小说之后陷入了创作瓶颈。
7 STOPPING MOVEMENTstopping movement 阻止行动 [usually singular]PREVENT something that prevents movement or progress 阻碍，障碍
block to
→ roadblock, stumbling block a major block to progress
进步的重大阻碍
8. punishment 惩罚the block SHSCin the past, a solid block of wood on which someone’s head was cut off as a punishment 〔古时斩首用的〕垫头木
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 拿自己来冒险〔指冒着败坏名誉或丢工作的危险去做某事或说某话〕
I’m not prepared to put my head on the block for him.
我可不愿意为了他拿自己来冒险。
10. SPORTsport 体育DS a movement in sport that stops an opponent going forward or playing the ball forward 拦截，阻挡（动作）
11 sell 出售go on the block to be sold, especially at an auction 在出售，在拍卖
→ block capitals, tower block, → be a chip off the old block at chip1(7), → I’ll knock your block off at knock1(24) $500 million worth of art will go on the block.
价值5亿美元的艺术品将要拍卖。
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 阻挡，堵塞
A fallen tree is blocking the road.
一棵倒下的树把路阻断了。
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 挡住某人的去路/路/出口/逃跑的路等
I tried to get through, but there were people blocking my way.
我想过去，但是有人挡着路。
3 STOP something THAT IS HAPPENINGto stop something happening, developing, or succeeding 阻止，妨碍，阻挠
The Senate blocked publication of the report.
参议院阻止这个报告发表。
laws designed to block imports of cheap tobacco
旨在阻挠廉价烟草进口的法规
4 block somebody’s view to be in front of someone, so that they cannot see something 挡住某人的视线
The huge building across the street blocked our view of the sea.
马路对面那幢巨大的楼房挡住了我们看海的视线。
5 (also block out) to stop light reaching a place 挡住〔光线〕
Can you move? You’re blocking my light.
你挪一挪好吗？你把光线挡住了。
6 to stop a ball, a blow etc from getting to where your opponent wants it to 阻截，拦截〔对方的击球等〕
a shot blocked by the goalkeeper
被守门员拦截的射门
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 〔因为靠得太近而〕堵住〔别人的汽车〕
b) to paint or draw simple shapes or areas of colour 画…的草图
I’ll just block in the main buildings.
我就勾画一下主要的建筑物。
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 封闭，封锁〔道路、入口等〕
Police blocked off the city centre streets.
警方封锁了市中心的街道。
The fireplace had been blocked off.
壁炉已经封起来了。
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 挡住，遮住〔光线〕
There was a heavy curtain blocking out the light.
一幅厚厚的窗帘挡住了光线。
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记忆
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.
(1300-1400) Old French bloc, from Middle Dutch blok