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oblivion

/uh-bliv-ee-uhn/US // əˈblɪv i ən //UK // (əˈblɪvɪən) //

遗忘,遗忘症,遗忘物,湮没

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state of being completely forgotten or unknown: a former movie star now in oblivion.
    • : the state of forgetting or of being oblivious: the oblivion of sleep.
    • : the act or process of dying out; complete annihilation or extinction: If we don't preserve their habitat, the entire species will pass into oblivion.
    • : Archaic. official disregard or overlooking of offenses; pardon; amnesty.

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Examples

  • These words are also motivated to overcome oblivion, that malicious vermin that erodes memories.

  • The film is visually shrouded in darkness, with light serving mainly as a respite from the shadows, but it’s Maud’s psyche that’s toughest to confront — if only because her doomed progress toward her own oblivion is a horrifically relatable fate.

  • Behind a row of sagging cabins and decades-old farm equipment, flat fields ran into the brambly branches of a leafless forest before fading into the oblivion of a dreary squall.

  • The pandemic has taken an industry that was already fending off threats on all sides and nudged it toward oblivion.

  • Reinvention is the holy grail of business, both for tech companies trying to bend the arc of the universe and old-line companies desperately attempting to stave off oblivion.

  • If opponents of gay rights are supposed to be retreating into oblivion, they missed the memo.

  • The team could sink into oblivion—or be bought by a beloved figure who could transform it.

  • That which gave him the power over me came back out of oblivion, where I had hoped to keep it.

  • Instead, one is headed to political oblivion, and the other is staring it in its face.

  • Not even a plan: just a wild lashing out, really, against oblivion.

  • He was contemporary with Milton, and preferred before him by critics of the day, but has now sunk into oblivion.

  • Could you have let them alone, by this time, poor Souls, they had been all peaceably buried in Oblivion!

  • After the total oblivion of the matter in his waking moments, he will sometimes recall all the details of the affair in a dream.

  • Sleep kindly came to some, and lulled their spirits into momentary oblivion.

  • Holding the violin aloft, he cried exultingly: Henceforth thou art mine, though death and oblivion lurk ever near thee!