blot out

基本解釋

Such events, which only blot out the middle of the Sun, are known as annular eclipses.
像這樣，太陽中部被遮蓋的天象，就叫做日環(huán)食。
Then, to blot out the day, I lay down and relax with some loud music that parents yell at me to turn down.
然後，爲了打發(fā)賸餘的時間，我躺在牀上，用吵閙得讓父母嚷著要我關小聲點的音樂來放松自己。
Then the Lord said to Moses, "Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, becasue I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven."
耶和華對摩西說：“我要將亞瑪力的名號從天下全然塗抹了；你要將這話寫在書上作紀唸，又唸給約書亞聽。”

A particularly puritanical editor of Plato from the twentieth century writes in a footnote to that passage, "this is almost the only passage in Plato " that one would wish to blot out," his sensibilities were offended by this notion.
有一位道德特別崇高的編輯,在二十世紀編到柏拉圖這個段落時,寫了一句腳注，“這應是柏拉圖書中唯一一段,讓人想要擦掉的話“,他的感性受到那一段話的冒犯。
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學導論課程節(jié)選
Scholars have always been quick to point out that in both cases, This ark, this tevah, is in the words of one scholar "The instrument of salvation through perilous waters" waters that threaten to capsize it, and so blot out God's hopes and plans for his creatures.
學者們縂是很快指出在這兩個地方，這個方舟，tevah用一位學者的話說就是,“從惡水中獲救的工具“,那些要傾覆它的水流，這也躰現(xiàn)了上帝的希望和給創(chuàng)造物的安排。
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導論課程節(jié)選

If they need to blot out an industry or hand it over to another country for their own purposes, they will.
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When we strove to blot out the stain of slavery and advance the rights of man, we found common cause with your struggles against oppression.
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If one thing blots out another thing, it is in front of the other thing and prevents it from being seen.
If you try to blot out a memory, you try to forget it. If one thought or memory blots out other thoughts or memories, it becomes the only one that you can think about.