- 1集團；陣營（政治、貿易；不是「街區」那種 block）
A bloc is a large group of people or countries that share the same political aims and work together. News English talks about a trading bloc, a voting bloc in parliament, or the Eastern bloc (the old Soviet-side countries in the Cold War). It is the word for a team of interests, not for a street or a lump of wood. It feels formal-to-neutral: newspapers, history, . You can stretch it a little — a bloc of voters, a bloc of countries — but it still wants that idea of a group acting as one. It was borrowed from French bloc, and it is a of English block: same old root, two paths into English.
From the word’s history
Borrowed from French bloc 'group, block', of Germanic origin; doublet of block.
借自法文 bloc「一群、一塊」，和 block 是同源字。
組成Borrowed from French bloc (“group, block”). Further back it goes to an old Germanic word for a beam or log. Doublet of English block: same ancestor, different route.
同家族的字
- blocka doublet — same older root, borrowed into English twice
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Blocname
- 1
governmentpoliticsBloc Québécois
blocnoun/blɒk/
- 1
A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.
- But a huge bloc of non-Hispanic white residents without bachelor’s degrees — 72 percent of the population age 25 or older — has turned the 7th District into Republican turf.
- How that impacts Asia’s most stable democracy will become clearer only in the weeks ahead. Sunday’s vote was a mid-term election for the less powerful, upper house of the legislature. And the Sanseito party, while surging, is still only the fourth-largest bloc in that chamber.
- 2
A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance.
- military bloc
- trading bloc
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。