I went to block club meetings and church socials, beauty shops and barbershops.

我参加了街道居民聚会、教会成员聚会，我还去了美容院和理发馆，拜访那里的顾客们。

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More than 150 items that had belonged to the former President of the Elvis Presley fan club went on the block at Chicago's Leslie Hindman auctioneers.

共有150多件物品于当天在芝加哥的莱斯利·辛德曼拍卖行拍卖，这些物品原归“猫王”歌迷俱乐部的前会长所有。

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Last night, I stood in a mould-stained tower-block bedroom not much larger than a club toilet cubicle and tried to work out if I could bear to make this my home.

昨晚，我站在发霉的高层公寓里，纠结于我是否能把这里当做自己的家，这个房间的面积比夜店的厕所隔间大不了多少。

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If France could block the club's expansion, that might then let it push for a tighter Union of 15, still centred on the old Franco-German alliance.

ECONOMIST: France and enlargement

The Ministry of Sound in Elephant and Castle is trying to stop the building of a block of flats nearby because club bosses fear noise complaints could force the venue's closure.

BBC: Example

As HMRC is often more than 25% of a club's debt it effectively has the power to block a CVA and has recently been exercising its right to do so.

BBC: League clubs approve transfer ban