Efface
[ɪ'feɪs] or [ɪ'fes]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin.
(v. t.) To destroy, as a mental impression; to wear away.
亚历克斯編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Obliterate, erase, expunge, blot, cancel, rub out, wipe out, scratch out, rub off, blot out, strike out.
安托万整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Erase, obliterate, eradicate, destroy, blot_out, cancel, expunge
ANT:restore, revive, delineate, Imprint, portray
亚伯拉罕手打
解釋/意思:
v.t. to destroy the surface of a thing: to rub out: to obliterate wear away.—adj. Efface′able that can be rubbed out.—n. Efface′ment.
整理:劳埃德
例句/造句/用法:
- No effort of Shirley's or Caroline's could efface it thence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Everyone who had joined him was eager now to attack him, and so efface that error. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Even to efface herself from the country means were required. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The traces of consumption may become fainter, or be wholly effaced: the inherent tendency to vice or crime may be eradicated. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- In the great city all traces of them might be most speedily and most surely effaced. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Here, and here only, the traces of the past lay deep--too deep to be effaced. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- She no longer meant to destroy them: that intention had been effaced by the quick corrosion of Mrs. Peniston's words. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Miss Oliver is ever surrounded by suitors and flatterers: in less than a month, my image will be effaced from her heart. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- In her will she killed him as he stood, effaced him. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- In summer, when he joined them for a Sunday at Newport or Southampton, he was even more effaced and silent than in winter. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Because he sees them happy with it, making a good use of it, effacing the old rust and tarnish on the money. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
弗朗西斯整理