erase
verbto remove something completely 清除；消除；消灭 - erase something
She tried to erase the memory of that evening. 她试图忘却那天晚上的事。 - erase something from something
All doubts were suddenly erased from his mind. 他心中所有的疑虑突然一扫而空了。 You cannot erase injustice from the world. 任何人都不可能让不公平的现象从世界上消失。
Extra ExamplesThese people have been virtually erased from the history book. 这些人实际上已经从历史书中抹去了。 They are determined to erase the bad memories of last year's defeats. 他们决心彻底忘记去年的失败。 This event has been effectively erased from written records. 这一事件从文字记载中被有效地抹去了。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- completely
- entirely
- fully
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- attempt to
- seek to
- try to
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- from
- erase something
- erase something
to make a mark or something you have written disappear, for example by rubbing it, especially in order to correct it 擦掉，抹掉（笔迹等） He had erased the wrong word. 他擦去了写错的字。 All the phone numbers had been erased. 所有的电话号码都被抹掉了。 The tide had erased the footprints. 潮水抹去了脚印。
- erase something
to remove a recording from a tape or information from a computer’s memory 抹去，清洗（磁带上的录音或存储器中的信息） Parts of the recording have been erased. 部分录音已被抹掉。 He had erased more than 5 000 files from the memory of his computer. 他已经从电脑内存中删除了5 000多个文件。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- completely
- entirely
- fully
- …
- attempt to
- seek to
- try to
- …
- from
Word Originlate 16th cent. (originally as a heraldic term meaning ‘represent the head or limb of an animal with a jagged edge’): from Latin eras- ‘scraped away’, from the verb eradere, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + radere ‘scrape’.