bloc

名词 n.
/blɒk/    /blɑk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
  2. A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance.
    — military bloc

词形变化

blocs plural

词源

Borrowed from French bloc (“group, block”), ultimately of Old Dutch origin, from Frankish or Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”). Doublet of block.
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