e·rase
verb/ɪˈreɪz/
/ɪˈreɪs/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they erase | /ɪˈreɪz/ /ɪˈreɪs/ |
| he / she / it erases | /ɪˈreɪzɪz/ /ɪˈreɪsɪz/ |
| past simple erased | /ɪˈreɪzd/ /ɪˈreɪst/ |
| past participle erased | /ɪˈreɪzd/ /ɪˈreɪst/ |
| -ing form erasing | /ɪˈreɪzɪŋ/ /ɪˈreɪsɪŋ/ |
- to remove something completely
切除；删除 - 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 Examples- These 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
- …
- attempt to
- seek to
- try to
- …
- from
- erase something She tried to erase the memory of that evening.
- 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.
潮水冲走了脚印。
- He had erased the wrong word.
- 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 5000 多个文件。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- completely
- entirely
- fully
- …
- attempt to
- seek to
- try to
- …
- from
- Parts of the recording have been erased.
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’.