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eliminate
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🇺🇸 /ɪlˈɪmʌnˌeɪt/
eliminate 是动词,核心意思是“彻底去掉”,也可引申为把人或队伍排除出去;在特定语境中还可表示杀死、排泄或在会计报表中抵销交易影响。
💡 记忆钩子
把东西赶过门槛、彻底弄出去,就是 eliminate。它先表示去掉烟尘、问题等具体或抽象的东西,后来扩展为排除嫌疑人、淘汰竞争者;在战争或俚语中可进一步表示使目标失去战斗力甚至杀死,在生理学和会计学中则分别表示排出废物、消除内部交易的影响。
📝 学习建议
- 先掌握“彻底去掉”和“排除、淘汰”这两个核心义项,再记忆杀死、排泄和会计学等专业或特殊用法。
- 不要把 eliminate 一律理解成普通的“避免”或“减少”;它通常强调目标被排除、去除或不再参与。
📖 中文释义
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core 彻底去掉📖 把某种问题、物质、危险或不需要的东西完全清除,使它不再存在或不再造成影响。这是 eliminate 最基本、最值得优先掌握的意思。💡 常用“eliminate + 问题、风险、污染物”等结构。它强调彻底处理,而不是只降低数量或暂时控制;在正式说明、计划和技术文本中尤其常见。transitiveThe new filter eliminates most of the dust in the room.新过滤器能清除房间里的大部分灰尘。We need to eliminate unnecessary steps from the process.我们需要删去流程中不必要的步骤。
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common 使设施失效或使人失去战斗力📖 在战争、军事或政治语境中,eliminate 可表示摧毁设施,使其无法使用,或使某人无法继续战斗;这里不一定明确表示杀死。💡 常用“eliminate + 目标”描述军事行动或攻击结果。该用法多见于新闻、政府、军事和政治报道,语气严肃;若只想说普通的关闭或停用,不宜随意使用这个词。transitiveThe strike eliminated the enemy's communications center.这次袭击摧毁了敌方的通信中心。
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rare 杀死📖 在俚语或犯罪、战争叙述中,eliminate 可委婉地表示杀死某人或某动物,是“把目标彻底除掉”这一核心意象的极端用法。💡 常用“eliminate + 人或动物”,但这种说法带有俚语、黑话或冷酷的委婉色彩。正式或日常中性表达应根据语境选择更明确的词;不要把这个义项当作普通的“解决”。slang transitive
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common 排泄废物📖 在生理学、医学或动物行为语境中,eliminate 表示身体把废物排出体外,也是“把不需要的东西弄出去”的具体延伸。💡 常见结构是“eliminate waste”或“eliminate + 废物”,也可以不及物地说某个动物在哪里排泄。这个用法偏医学、科学或照护语境;日常谈论上厕所时通常不用它。ambitransitiveThe body must eliminate waste to stay healthy.身体必须排出废物,才能保持健康。
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core 排除或淘汰📖 把某人或某队从调查、选择范围或比赛中赶出去,使其不能继续参与。例如,警方排除某人是嫌疑人,比赛中淘汰一支队伍,都是把目标移出门槛外。💡 常用“eliminate + 人或队伍 + from + 范围或活动”,也可用被动结构表示“被淘汰、被排除”。在调查语境中常接“as a suspect”,在比赛语境中常指输掉后不能继续晋级。transitiveThe team was eliminated from the tournament in the first round.这支队伍在第一轮就被淘汰出比赛了。
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rare 在合并报表中抵销内部交易影响📖 在会计学中,eliminate 表示编制合并报表时把同一集团内部交易造成的重复金额抵销掉,让报表只反映集团对外的结果。💡 常见于“eliminate + 内部交易、余额或影响”以及“在合并报表中抵销……”的结构。该用法属于会计和财务专业语境,通常不用于一般商业对话;注意它说的是报表处理,不是取消一项真实交易。
eliminates
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eliminating
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eliminated
participle,past
eliminated
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📘 英文释义 (WordNet)
共 7 组
eliminate from the body
同义词集:
excrete
egest
eliminate
pass
Pass a kidney stone
上位: discharge, eject, exhaust, expel, release
下位: barf, be sick, ca-ca, cast, cat, chuck, crap, defecate, disgorge, empty, evacuate, exudate, exude, honk, make, make water, micturate, ooze, ooze out, pass water, pee, pee-pee, perspire, piddle, piss, puddle, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, relieve oneself, retch, shit, sick, spend a penny, spew, spue, stool, sudate, sweat, take a crap, take a leak, take a shit, throw up, transude, upchuck, urinate, void, vomit, vomit up, wee, wee-wee
kill in large numbers
同义词集:
eliminate
annihilate
extinguish
eradicate
wipe out
decimate
carry off
the plague wiped out an entire population
上位: kill
terminate, end, or take out; ;
同义词集:
extinguish
eliminate
get rid of
do away with
Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics
Socialism extinguished these archaic customs
eliminate my debts
上位: destroy, destruct
下位: cut, drown, except, exclude, extinguish, leave off, leave out, obliterate, omit, prune, rationalise, rationalize, snuff out, take out
remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
同义词集:
eliminate
上位: remove, take, take away, withdraw
dismiss from consideration or a contest;
同义词集:
rule out
eliminate
winnow out
reject
John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi
This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration
remove from a contest or race
同义词集:
eliminate
The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race
上位: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
do away with
同义词集:
obviate
rid of
eliminate
反义: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take
下位: close out, preclude, rule out
🌳 词源
源自拉丁语,原义与“赶出门外、放逐”有关;词源中的“门槛、边界”意象也保留在“彻底排除”的核心概念中。
Borrowed from Latin ēlīminātus, perfect passive participle of ēlīminō (“to turn out of doors, banish”), from ē- + līmen (“a threshold”, līmin- in compounds) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), akin to Latin līmes (“a boundary”); see also English limit and limen.
🔄 变式
eliminated
past
eliminates
present
eliminating
present
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