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To banish someone means to officially force them to leave a place, especially their own country, usually as a punishment — a serious, historical-sounding word, common in stories about kings and exile. It's also used more lightly today for getting rid of a bad feeling, thought, or thing completely — 'banish your doubts' or 'banish the smell from the room.'
（正式／歷史）放逐、驅逐；（引申）消除（念頭、氣味等）
組成From Old French 'banir', related to 'ban' (an official order forbidding something).
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- banrelated root, meaning an official order that forbids something
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
banishverb/ˈbænɪʃ/
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To send (someone) away and forbid them from returning.
- He was banished from the kingdom for his crimes.
- The parsnip, stilton and chestnut combination may taste good, but it's not terribly decorative. In fact, dull's the word, a lingering adjectival ghost of nut roasts past that I'm keen to banish from the table.
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To expel, especially from the mind.
- to banish fear; to banish a qualm
- […]St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。