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

• Time would efface the memory.
  时间将会抹去记忆。
• 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。
• Time would efface the memory. the distant past beyond memory.
  超出记忆力范围的时间。
• 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。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。