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
- I do not believe in mandrake, or in blood-stains that no time can efface.
我不相信蔓陀罗花，不相信时间也擦不掉血迹斑斑。 - 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。 - 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。 - He would have to efface himself before his visitor.
他在客人面前必须表现得很谦虚。 - You see, I am willing to admit, for the sake of the argument, that matter exists; and what I am about to do is to efface you by your own argument.
你看，为了辩论，我倒是乐意承认物质是存在的。 - If smear is too heavy, usable scour efface, again dry finally brush.
假如污迹太重，可用洗涤剂抹去，最后再干擦一遍。 - Time would efface the memory.
时间将会抹去记忆。 - To efface the faults of five decades.
消除五十年来的种种错误。 - Tried to efface prejudice from his mind.
试图使他忘掉偏见。 - He sought not to efface sorrow by forgetfulness, but to magnify and dignify it by hope.
他不以遗忘来消除苦痛，却希望去使苦痛显得伟大和光荣。