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　

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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
  1. efface the memory of the time in the camps
  Synonym:obliterate
• remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing
  1. Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!
  Synonym:eraserub outscore outwipe off
• make inconspicuous
  1. efface oneself

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• Time alone will efface those unpleasant memories.
  只有时间才能使人淡忘那些不快的记忆。
• The name of the ship had been effaced from the menus.
  那艘船的名字已经从选择菜单中删除了。
• 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。
• Besides normal analysis of structure and calculation of section constant, the program has the function of analysis the section constant change of load-bearing structure, and this change's efface on the distribute of inner force.
  程序除具有常规的结构分析，截面性质计算功能外，还能进行复合截面受力引起截面刚度变化的非线性过程分析，并考虑截面刚度修正对内力分布的影响。
• Five years 'absence had done nothing to efface the people's memory of his firmness ( Alan Moorehead) See Synonyms at erase
  五年离别丝毫未冲淡人们对他坚毅形象的记忆（艾伦穆尔黑德）参见
• Was anyone called having been circumcised? He need not efface it. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? He need not be circumcised.
  18有人蒙召时已受割礼，就不要回复原状；有人蒙召时未受割礼，就不要受割礼。
• 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。
• 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。