blot out

英 [blɒt aʊt]

美 [blɑːt aʊt]

遮住; 挡住; 遮蔽; 抹去（记忆）; 排除，挤掉（其他想法或记忆）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 遮住；挡住；遮蔽
  If one thingblots outanother thing, it is in front of the other thing and prevents it from being seen.
  1. About the time the three climbers were halfway down, clouds blotted out the sun.
     当这3个登山者下到半山腰的时候，云层遮住了太阳。
  2. ...the victim, whose face was blotted out by a camera blur.
     脸部经过镜头模糊处理而遮起来的受害人
  3. ...with mist blotting everything out except the endless black of the spruce on either side.
     除了两边一望无际的黑压压的云杉以外，万物都被薄雾笼罩了
• PHRASAL VERB 抹去（记忆）；排除，挤掉（其他想法或记忆）
  If you try toblot outa memory, you try to forget it. If one thought or memoryblots outother thoughts or memories, it becomes the only one that you can think about.
  1. Are you saying that she's trying to blot out all memory of the incident?...
     你是说她想彻底忘掉这件事？
  2. The boy has gaps in his mind about it. He is blotting certain things out...
     这个小男孩对此的记忆中有几段空白。他想忘掉某些事情。
  3. She has suffered an extremely unhappy childhood, but simply blotted it out of her memory.
     她的童年极为不幸，对此她索性就不去想。

英英释义

verb

• make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
  1. a hidden message
  2. a veiled threat
  Synonym:obscureobliterateveilhide

双语例句

• She tried hard to blot out the bitter memories of the divorce.
  她想努力抹去离婚的痛苦记忆。
• How can we blot out the memory of past misery?
  我们怎能忘记过去的苦难呢？
• Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
  你且由着我，我要灭绝他们，将他们的名从天下涂抹，使你的后裔比他们成为更大更强的国。
• She has suffered an extremely unhappy childhood, but simply blotted it out of her memory.
  她的童年极为不幸，对此她索性就不去想。
• You just have to blot out any thought of failure.
  你要去掉任何失败的想法。
• All the curses written in this book will fall upon him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.
  耶和华的怒气与愤恨要向他发作，如烟冒出，将这书上所写的一切咒诅都加在他身上。
• I tried to blot out the image of her sad face.
  我尽量不去想她那张忧伤的脸。
• It seems as if the blanket of depression is in some way necessary to help them blot out the even greater pain of real life
  似乎这种弥漫的抑郁情绪多少能帮助他们忘却一些现实生活中更大的痛苦。
• Celia tried to blot out the present.
  西莉亚竭力排开眼前的事。
• You must not blot out all opposition. Some of the criticisms made even by the Rightists are correct and should not be categorically rejected.
  你不能把反对意见都一笔抹去。右派的批评也有一些是对的，不能一概抹杀。