efface
efface 英 [ɪˈfeɪs] 美 [ɪˈfes]
vt. 抹去，抹掉；使自己不受人注意
进行时:effacing 过去式:effaced 过去分词:effaced 第三人称单数:effaces 名词复数:effaces
- If something is erased or rubbed out, it has been effaced. Teachers get annoyed to find that someone has effaced the blackboard — even the part clearly marked, "Do Not Erase!"
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- vt. 抹去，抹掉；使自己不受人注意
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1. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's personality.
除非一个人能承受抹去自己个性的长期斗争，否则，他根本写不出一些具可读性的东西。
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2. There's one valedictory wink from the great magician, a final card containing a list of synonyms for "efface" – expunge, erase, delete, rub out, wipe out and...
这是最后一次来自这个伟大的魔法师的眨眼告别，一张列着“消除”的近义词的最后底牌——擦除、清除、删除、磨灭、消灭，还有……
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3. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality.
但话又说回来，作家若不能努力隐去自己的个性，他便写不出什么值得一读的东西。
- efface (v.) "to erase or obliterate," especially something written or carved, late 15c., from Middle French effacer, from Old French esfacier (12c.) "to wipe out, destroy," literally "to remove the face," from es- "out" (see ex-) + face "appearance," from Latin facies "face" (see face (n.)). Related: Effaced; effacing; effaceable. Compare deface.
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