從名單上剔除
被拿掉的不是東西而是「還留在名單上的資格」：比賽打完少一隊，查證完少一個嫌疑人，名單就這樣一路縮短。
knock out of competition · verb · B1
to beat a team or player in a competition, so that they cannot play in it any more.
淘汰
核心畫面
Taking something out of the picture so completely that it is no longer part of it at all — not reduced, not hidden, gone. What gets taken out can be a problem, a team still in the competition, or a name on a list of possible suspects. In every case the set that remains no longer contains it.
可以想成：把某樣東西從畫面裡整個拿掉，讓它不再是其中的一部分——不是變少，也不是藏起來，而是沒有了。被拿掉的可以是一…更多收起
可以想成：把某樣東西從畫面裡整個拿掉，讓它不再是其中的一部分——不是變少，也不是藏起來，而是沒有了。被拿掉的可以是一個問題、一支還在比賽的隊伍，或是可疑名單上的一個名字。共通點是：剩下的那一組裡，再也沒有它。From the picture
Also in this word
get rid of · verb · B2
to get rid of something completely, so that none of it is left.
消除；根除
kill (euphemism) · verb · C1
to kill someone so that they cannot cause trouble any more. This is a cold, indirect way of talking, used about rulers and villains.
除掉
原始詞典資料6 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。
eliminateverb/ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/
- 1
To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
- The air-handling equipment humidifies, dehumidifies, and distributes the correct amount of fresh air into every zone and eliminates all smoke, dust, and odors, with electric precipitrons.
- The real savings of OCR come from the elimination of redundant keyboardings of the same data; from eliminating multiple verification steps; from reducing the number of documents needed to complete a transaction; […]
- 2
governmentmilitarypoliticsTo render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing)
- 3
slangTo kill (a person or animal).
- a ruthless mobster who eliminated his enemies
- 4
medicinephysiologysciencesTo excrete (waste products).
- In one study, 65.8% of the cat owners relinquishing a cat thought that their cat eliminated outside the litter box or destroyed furniture to spite them.
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To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
- Bill was eliminated as a suspect when the police interviewed witnesses.
- John was eliminated as a contestant when it was found he had gained, rather than lost, weight.
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accountingbusinessfinanceTo record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
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。