erase

汉语翻译

vt. 抹去, 擦掉
【计】 清洗; 擦除; 抹除; DOS内部命令:从磁盘上删除一个或多个文件

词型变化：

动词过去式:erased 过去分词:erased 现在分词:erasing 第三人称单数:erases 形容词:erasable 名词:erasability 

英语解释：

动词 erase:

1. remove from memory or existence
   同义词：wipe out
2. remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing
   同义词：rub out, score out, efface, wipe off
3. wipe out magnetically recorded information
   同义词：delete

例句：

1. Also, access a full-screen menu, such as call, will erase the snapshot from memory.
   同样进入全屏菜单，如Call, 也会从内存中删除快照。
2. Had to erase all thoughts of failure from his mind.
   必须抹去他头脑中所有有关失败的记忆
3. He erases pencil marks.
   他擦去铅笔的痕迹。
4. She couldn't erase the incident from her memory.
   她难以忘记那次事件。

详细解释：

e.rase

v.tr.（及物动词）
e.rased,e.ras.ing,e.ras.es


To remove (something written, for example) by rubbing, wiping, or scraping.
擦掉，抹掉：通过用橡皮涂抹或刮除（写的字迹或图形等）
To remove (recorded material) from a magnetic tape or other storage medium:
删除：从磁带或其它存储介质上消除掉（记录的信息）：
例句：
erased a file from the diskette.
从磁盘上清除掉一个文件

To remove recorded material from (a magnetic tape or disk, for example):
除去记录：（从磁带或磁盘等上）去掉记录的信息：
例句：
erased the videocassette.
清洗录像带

To remove all traces of.
擦净：消除…所有的痕迹
To remove or destroy as if by wiping out:
使忘却：象涂抹掉一样消除、消灭：
例句：
had to erase all thoughts of failure from his mind.
必须抹去他头脑中所有有关失败的记忆


来源：
Latin ôr3dere ôr3s- [to scratch out]
拉丁语 ôr3dere ôr3s- [刮掉]
ô-, ex- [ex-]
ô-, ex- [前缀，表.免除，离开.]
r3dere [to scrape] * see rôd-
r3dere [刮落] *参见 rôd-

【引伸】
eras.abil.ity
n.（名词）
eras.able
adj.（形容词）
<参考词汇><同义词>erase,expunge,efface,delete,cancelThese verbs mean to remove or invalidate something, especially something recorded as by having been written down. Toerase is to wipe or rub out, literally or figuratively:
这些动词都表示消除，使某事（特别是通过写下来记录的事）无效、消失。erase 指确实地或比喻意义上的涂抹掉、擦除掉：
例句：
erased the equation from the blackboard.
擦掉黑板上的等式。

例句：
Unconsciousness erased the details of the accident from her memory.
昏迷抹掉了她对事故细节的记忆。

Expunge implies thoroughgoing removal that leaves no trace:
Expunge 指彻底清除不留痕迹：
例句：
expunged their names from the list.
把他们的名字从名单上删掉。

Efface also refers to the removal of every trace:
Efface 也指除去每一痕迹：
例句：
effacing graffiti from subway cars;
除掉地铁车厢上的乱涂污迹；

例句：
tried to efface prejudice from his mind.
试图使他忘掉偏见。

Delete is used principally in the sense of removing matter from a manuscript:
Delete 主要用来表示从手稿中删除事物：
例句：
The expletives were deleted from the transcript.
咒骂部分被从手稿中删除。

Cancel refers to invalidating by or as if by drawing lines through something written or by indicating that the force or effect of something has been terminated:
Cancel 是通过或如同通过在某物上划线表示删除、消去或者通过说明某物的力量或效力已经结束而消除：
例句：
a postage stamp that had been canceled;
一张被盖邮戳的邮票；

例句：
cancel vows;
取消誓约；

例句：
cancel a debt.
消掉一笔帐