- 1擦除、抹除；談歷史或身分被「寫沒了」時也說抹消
Erasure is what happens when something is erased: the act of rubbing or wiping it away, or the state of it being gone. On a page it can be quite small — a pencil erasure, a mark that was there and is not. In more serious talk it means making a person, a language, or a piece of history as if it had never been: the erasure of a name from the record. That use is common in universities and in writing about culture; it is not the rubber on your desk. The word feels a little formal. For everyday “I rubbed it out,” people often just say that. Use erasure when you mean the event, the result, or that bigger “wiping from the story.”
組成Built like a Latin noun from ērādō (“to erase”) + -tūra, same as erase + -ure: the act or result of erasing.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
erasurenoun/ɪˈɹeɪʃɚ/
- 1
The action of erasing; deletion; obliteration.
- An inroad on the strongbox, or an erasure in the ledger, or a missummation in a fitted account, could hardly have surprised him more disagreeably.
- The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.
- 2
The state of having been erased; total blankness.
- Bush, even when he had the floor, grimaced as he spoke, except on several occasions when he lost his way and a look of total erasure came over him, a blank, stricken stare for which the French, alas, have the most apt expression: like a cow watching a train go by.
- 3
The place where something has been erased.
- There were several erasures on the paper.
- 4
human-sciencessciencessocial-scienceA tendency to ignore or conceal an element of society.
- bisexual erasure
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