1. quarter
GNP increased at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.5% in the fourth quarter.
The company incurred a deficit of $400 million during the first quarter.
Do you think you can get me to Union Station by a quarter after?
Chinese quarter
In Korea, there's a popular theory that says that: "If you eat a quarter of an Iceberg lettuce, you will fall asleep". Thus, amongst truck drivers in Korea, lettuce is known as something that should not be eaten before work.
As the coach won't leave until quarter past seven, I'll call our friends first and then write some postcards.
If these tendencies continue, those aged 65 or more will account for a quarter of the population within 30 years.
I have received personal information, from a very high quarter, that a certain document of the last importance, has been purloined from the royal apartments.
In American money, a "quarter" is 25 cents; 4 quarters make a dollar.
He who is born for a dime, will never be worth a quarter.
We start class at nine o'clock, but he didn’t come until quarter past.
You can save money by buying a whole chicken and quartering it yourself.
Half of them were white people, one quarter were indian, and one quarter were African
At the end of the previous quarter, the board considered
María looked at the starry sky, with a quarter moon that illuminated that autumn night.
2. block
Such a person will often go a block out of his way to avoid meeting a person of the opposite sex.
Every author suffers from writer's block from time to time.
I need sun block.
Nothing can change the look of a city so dramatically as the sudden appearance of a block of offices which towers above all the surrounding buildings.
From time to time, a proposal to pull down a much-loved old building to make room for a new block of flats, raises a storm of angry protest.
I'll kill you! Knock your block off and grind you underfoot! You shithead! Die!
A warehouse full of illegal fireworks blew up and destroyed a whole city block.
And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years — block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.
The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
As the attendees of the DTA General Meeting will be offered the block rate, when you reserve Marriott Hotel for me, please notify them that I will attend it.
One hutong connects with another, siheyuans connect with other siheyuans to form a block, and blocks join with other blocks to form the whole city.
Just how well can masks block the, even smaller than pollen, yellow sand dust? I think it much more of a nuisance than pollen.
The manager blocked his suggestion because he didn’t like it.
This block of apartments is a building that takes both the environment and health into consideration. From now on we want to further expand this system and knowhow.
Almost all implementations of virtual memory divide the virtual address space of an application program into pages; a page is a block of contiguous virtual memory addresses.
英語 "という言葉квартал"(block)集合で発生します。
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