efface
英 [ɪˈfeɪs]
美 [ɪˈfeɪs]
v. 消除; 抹去; 擦掉
过去分词：effaced 过去式：effaced 第三人称单数：effaces 现在分词：effacing
BNC.34951 / COCA.24301
牛津词典
verb
- 消除；抹去；擦掉
to make sth disappear; to remove sth
柯林斯词典
- See also:...an event that has helped efface the country's traditional image...The name of the ship had been effaced from the menus.self-effacing
英英释义
verb
- remove completely from recognition or memory
- efface the memory of the time in the camps
- remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing
- Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!
- make inconspicuous
- efface oneself
双语例句
- Time would efface the memory. the distant past beyond memory.
超出记忆力范围的时间。 - The shy boy efface himself by stay in the background.
那害羞的孩子躲在后面不让人注意。 - Lysias was to send an army against them to crush and destroy the power of Israel and the remnant of Jerusalem and efface their memory from the land.
即要他派遣军队攻打以色列，粉碎他们的力量，扫荡耶路撒冷剩余的居民，将他们的纪念，由那地上除去。 - The lapse of year will never efface that scene of ruin from my memory.
时光的流逝绝不会把那废墟的景象从我的记忆中冲淡。 - Wind and rain might efface memories, but not the everlasting devotion to education;
岁月的风风雨雨可以冲淡许多记忆，但永远冲不淡不泯的事业之情。 - To efface the faults of five decades.
消除五十年来的种种错误。 - He would have to efface himself before his visitor.
他在客人面前必须表现得很谦虚。 - Remorse is just like a dose of chronic poison that would ceaselessly efface your will, unconsciously deplete your happiness and reduce the chance of your success;
懊悔就像一剂慢性毒药，在无休无止中磨灭你的意志，在不知不觉中消耗你的快乐，降低你成功的几率。 - The whole country had tried to efface the memory of the old dictatorship.
全国上下都曾努力试图抹去旧的专制统治的记忆。 - Tried to efface prejudice from his mind.
试图使他忘掉偏见。