• n. 體積，容量；大多數，大部分；大塊
• vt. 使擴大，使形成大量；使顯得重要
• n. (Bulk)人名；(土)布爾克

詞源同ball, 膨脹，鼓起，球。

bulk

bulk: [14] Formally, bulk comes from Old Norse búlki, which meant ‘cargo’ or ‘heap’: the original connotation of the English word in this sense was thus of goods loaded loose, in heaps, rather than neatly packed up. That is the source of the phrase in bulk. However, a certain similarity in form and meaning to the English word bouk ‘belly’ (from Old English būc, and ultimately a descendant of West and North Germanic *būkaz) led to the two being confused, so that bulk was used for ‘belly’, or more generally ‘body’.

Modern connotations of ‘great size’ seem to be a blend of these two. The bulk of bulkhead [15] is a different word; it may come from Old Norse bálkr ‘partition’.

bulk (n.)

mid-15c., "a heap," earlier "ship's cargo" (mid-14c.), from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse bulki "a heap; ship's cargo," thus "goods loaded loose" (perhaps literally "rolled-up load"), from Proto-Germanic *bul-, from PIE root *bhel- (2) "to blow, inflate, swell" (see bole).

Meaning extended by confusion with obsolete bouk "belly" (from Old English buc "body, belly," from Proto-Germanic *bukaz; see bucket), which led to sense of "size," first attested mid-15c.

bulk (v.)

"swell, become more massive," 1550s (usually with up), from bulk (n.). Related: Bulked; bulking.

1. Sloping walls on the bulk of the building create an optical illusion.

大樓主體的斜墻給人造成一種視錯覺。

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2. Despite his bulk he moved lightly on his feet.

盡管他身形龐大，移動起來還是很靈巧。

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3. Shopkeepers buy them in bulk and resell them for ￡150 each.

店主們先大量購進，然后再以150英鎊的單價將它們轉賣出去。

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4. His legs were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk.

他的雙腿和他龐大身軀的其他部分相比瘦得可憐。

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5. The bulk of the book concerns Sandy's two middle-aged children.

書中主要描寫桑迪的兩個已到中年的孩子。

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