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
- He would have to efface himself before his visitor.
他在客人面前必须表现得很谦虚。 - 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。 - To efface the faults of five decades.
消除五十年来的种种错误。 - It takes many years to efface the unpleasant memories of a war.
许多年后才能冲淡战争的不愉快记忆。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - All done for first time are not easy to efface from our memories.
所有的第一次都是今生的难忘。