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erasure

/ih-rey-sher/US // ɪˈreɪ ʃər //UK // (ɪˈreɪʒə) //

擦除,抹去,抹杀,橡皮擦

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act or instance of erasing.
    • : a place where something has been erased; a spot or mark left after erasing: You can't sign a contract with so many erasures in it.
    • : the exclusion of a minority group or group member from the historical record, or from the discussion of current events:erasure of female scientists from textbooks; black victim erasure in the crime-bill debate.the replacement or whitewashing of a minority character or group with a member or members of the dominant cultural group in fictional representations of historical events:minority erasure in film.the denial of an individual’s or group’s minority identity, or the misidentification of a minority group member:trans-erasure issues in the LGBT community; cultural erasure and white identity among Chicanos.

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Examples

  • Linking Scott’s legacy to a bird “is just adding to the erasure by putting another layer over it.”

  • The good news is that historians and journalists, as well as the women themselves, have been working hard to reverse this erasure and are having significant success.

  • More than an erasure of historical fact it is another example of the ongoing and dangerous practice of cherry-picking parts of our past to fit prepackaged national myths.

  • By exploiting the rules that neurons use to learn new associations, these next-generation electroceuticals may enable permanent disease erasure.

  • The sheet ended up being wounded by a playful machete, full of cut phrases, notes on the edges, reminders, arrows that redirect the reading and erasures in search of a better piece in each version.

  • In this way, inspiration becomes appropriation, which leads directly to theft and erasure.

  • While many of these depictions play into bisexual erasure, others reinforce harmful bisexual stereotypes.

  • The act of erasure through mis- or under-representation is an insidious one.

  • The total erasure of former employees is so familiar it even has a nickname.

  • I love the way erasure becomes a tool for depiction and emphasis, and failure becomes a heroic condition.

  • The French attorney general demanded the erasure of his name from the list of magistrates, but this the court refused.

  • For answer she bent over her typewriter and began to make an erasure.

  • Bruslart (ubi supra, i. 136) denies that the erasure was actually made as Charles had commanded.

  • This thin paste of wax was also spread on tablets of wood, that it might more easily admit of erasure.

  • Consequently the action of the iodine differs according to the extent of the erasure.