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
- 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。 - 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 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Time would efface the memory.
时间将会抹去记忆。 - 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 - The shy boy efface himself by stay in the background.
那害羞的孩子躲在后面不让人注意。 - 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。