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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.
A bloc is a large group of people or countriesBloc是指一大群人或一群國家that share the same political aims and work together有共同的政治目標並一起合作News English talks about a trading bloc, a voting bloc in parliament新聞英文會講到trading bloc（貿易集團）、國會裡的voting bloc（投票集團）or the Eastern bloc或是Eastern bloc（東方集團）(the old Soviet-side countries in the Cold War)（冷戰時期蘇聯那一邊的國家）It is the word for a team of interests這個字是指利益一致的團體not for a street or a lump of wood不是指街區，也不是指一塊木頭
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 feels formal-to-neutral語感偏正式到中性newspapers, history, politics常見於報紙、歷史、政治You can stretch it a little可以稍微延伸使用a bloc of voters, a bloc of countries像是一群選民、一群國家but it still wants that idea of a group acting as one但還是要保有「一群人一起行動」的概念
It was borrowed from French bloc, and it is a of English block: same old root, two paths into English.
It was borrowed from French bloc這個字是從法文bloc借來的and it is a doublet of English block跟英文的block是一對雙式詞same old root, two paths into English同一個古老的字根，走了兩條路進入英文
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，原文照列，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
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governmentpoliticsBloc Québécois
blocnoun/blɒk/
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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.
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A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance.
- military bloc
- trading bloc
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。