a state in which you are not aware of what is happening around you, usually because you are unconscious or asleep 无意识状态；沉睡；昏迷 the state in which somebody/something has been forgotten and is no longer famous or important 被遗忘；被忘却；湮没 An unexpected victory saved him from political oblivion. 一次意外的胜利使得他在政治上不再默默无闻。 Most of his inventions have been consigned to oblivion. 他的大部分发明都湮没无闻了。 a minor masterpiece, saved from oblivion 免于湮灭的次要代表作
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- political
- total
- fade into
- fall into
- pass into
- …
- in oblivion
a state in which something has been completely destroyed 被摧毁；被毁灭；被夷平
Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French from Latin oblivio(n-), from oblivisci ‘forget’.