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Obliterate Completely Planet Time Verb 动词   [V N

英语单词 obliterate
英美音标 英 [ə'blɪtəreɪt] 美 [ə'blɪtəreɪt]
中文释义 v.涂去;擦去;删除;盖销(邮票等)
英语例句 (1) Can you obliterate the letters on the edge in this paper with correction fluid?
(2) Don't obliterate a file simply because you discovered it to be a bad idea.
中文例句 (1) 你能用涂改液涂去这一页边上的这些字母吗?
(2) 不要因为你发现它不好就删除一个文件。
vocabulary简明 When you see obliterate, think of evil alien invaders that zap a planet with a destructive ray. In one blast, the planet and all of the people on it are vaporized. The planet is truly obliterated, or completely wiped out.
vocabulary扩展 A long time ago, obliterate had to do with blotting out words on a page. This is why you see the word literate in there. Today it means to erase or destroy completely so that there is nothing left. While you can still obliterate text, you can also obliterate hope, an opponent, or all traces of your presence. Whatever you obliterate is completely gone.
柯林斯解释
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[VERB 动词]消灭;毁掉;清除 If something obliterates an object or place, it destroys it completely.
  [V n]
  • Their warheads are enough to obliterate the world several times over...

    他们拥有的弹头足以将世界毁灭好几次。

  • Whole villages were obliterated by fire.

    整座整座的村庄都被大火所吞噬。

obliteration
  • ...the obliteration of three isolated rainforests.

    3处孤立雨林的毁灭

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[VERB 动词]抹除,忘却(回忆等) If you obliterate something such as a memory, emotion, or thought, you remove it completely from your mind.
  [V n]
  [LITERARY 文]
  • There was time enough to obliterate memories of how things once were for him.

    时间足以抹去他对过去经历的记忆。

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