wipe off the map

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For Israelis, whose country Mr Ahmadinejad says he wants to wipe off the map, it is not all that reassuring to hear that Iran can "probably" be deterred.
艾哈邁迪內賈德認爲以色列應該從世界地圖上抹去，所以對於以色列國民來說，僅僅聽到伊朗的（核計劃）“很可能”會被中止顯然是不能全然安心的。
If the coalition air strikes overtly go after the leader himself, Col Gaddafi will press a secret button in his bunker which will detonate bombs across the country and wipe it off the map.
如果聯(lián)軍空襲敢公然對卡紥菲上校進行斬首行動，上校就會按下防空洞中的那個神秘按鈕，引爆埋在利比亞全境的炸彈，讓這個國家從地圖上消失。
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Iranian President Ahmadinejad DID NOT threaten to wipe Israel off the map .
“伊朗縂統(tǒng)內賈德沒有威脇到”以色列從地圖上抹去。

That is a cause of great concern here because Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has threatened to wipe the Jewish state "off the map."
But Israeli spokesman Zalman Shoval says with Iran's president still threatening to wipe the Jewish state "off the map", Israel is making no promises.
Israel is alarmed by Iran's recent test firing of its longest-range missile and previous threats by its president to wipe the Jewish state "off the map."

How could they afford to sit by while the regime pledged to wipe them off the map was equipping itself with nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them?
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