blot out

英 [blɒt aʊt]

美 [blɑːt aʊt]

遮住; 挡住; 遮蔽; 抹去（记忆）; 排除，挤掉（其他想法或记忆）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 遮住；挡住；遮蔽
  If one thingblots outanother thing, it is in front of the other thing and prevents it from being seen.
  1. About the time the three climbers were halfway down, clouds blotted out the sun.
     当这3个登山者下到半山腰的时候，云层遮住了太阳。
  2. ...the victim, whose face was blotted out by a camera blur.
     脸部经过镜头模糊处理而遮起来的受害人
  3. ...with mist blotting everything out except the endless black of the spruce on either side.
     除了两边一望无际的黑压压的云杉以外，万物都被薄雾笼罩了
• PHRASAL VERB 抹去（记忆）；排除，挤掉（其他想法或记忆）
  If you try toblot outa memory, you try to forget it. If one thought or memoryblots outother thoughts or memories, it becomes the only one that you can think about.
  1. Are you saying that she's trying to blot out all memory of the incident?...
     你是说她想彻底忘掉这件事？
  2. The boy has gaps in his mind about it. He is blotting certain things out...
     这个小男孩对此的记忆中有几段空白。他想忘掉某些事情。
  3. She has suffered an extremely unhappy childhood, but simply blotted it out of her memory.
     她的童年极为不幸，对此她索性就不去想。

英英释义

verb

• make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
  1. a hidden message
  2. a veiled threat
  Synonym:obscureobliterateveilhide

双语例句

• The wings of a crow cannot blot out the radiance of the sun.
  乌鸦翅膀遮不住太阳。
• I tried to blot out the image of her sad face.
  我尽量不去想她那张忧伤的脸。
• All the curses written in this book will fall upon him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.
  耶和华的怒气与愤恨要向他发作，如烟冒出，将这书上所写的一切咒诅都加在他身上。
• Do not forgive their crimes or blot out their sins from your sight.
  他们要杀我的那一切计谋，你都知道。
• It seems as if the blanket of depression is in some way necessary to help them blot out the even greater pain of real life
  似乎这种弥漫的抑郁情绪多少能帮助他们忘却一些现实生活中更大的痛苦。
• A chance to blot out our mistakes and chance failure into winning.
  一次抹掉我们的错误转败为胜的机会。
• Are you saying that she's trying to blot out all memory of the incident?
  你是说她想彻底忘掉这件事？
• Celia tried to blot out the present.
  西莉亚竭力排开眼前的事。
• How can we blot out the memory of past misery?
  我们怎能忘记过去的苦难呢？
• The ageing pharaoh might as well try to blot out the sun with his finger.
  日渐衰老的法老还不如试着用手指遮住太阳。