efface

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And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's personality.
除非一個人能承受抹去自己個性的長期斗爭，否則，他根本寫不出一些具可讀性的東西。
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...
這是最后一次來自這個偉大的魔法師的眨眼告別，一張列著“消除”的近義詞的最后底牌——擦除、清除、刪除、磨滅、消滅，還有……
Also this week he told French ambassadors to go out and tell the world that he is determined to modernise France and efface its image as rigid and protectionist.
也是在這周，他告訴法國的大使們到世界各國向全世界宣講他推進法國現(xiàn)代化的決心，并淡化法國頑固不化和貿(mào)易保護主義的固有形象。

Neither political correctness nor willful blindness can efface that record.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: 2012 Freedom Flame Award: Michael Mukasey
Along with the hypocrisy of power, Lou dramatizes a society of surveillance and internal espionage, in which deceit and pretense serve the spirit of freedom, fear and despair efface identity and warp morality, and the last refuge of conscience, in the face of oppressive order, is the commemoration of the victims.
NEWYORKER: Spring Fever

(REMOVE) to remove something intentionally
(BE MODEST) to behave in a modest way and treat the good things that you have achieved as if they are not important, often because you do not have much confidence

To efface something means to destroy or remove it so that it cannot be seen anymore. &rarrsee also self-effacing