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VERB
消除,剔除,根除(尤指不需要之物)
To eliminate something, especially something you do not want or need, means to remove it completely.
例句
The Sex Discrimination Act has not eliminated discrimination in employment...
《反性別歧視法》并未根除工作中的歧視。
Academic departments are being eliminated...
純理論研究院系即將被裁撤。
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V-PASSIVE
(在競賽中)淘汰
When a person or team is eliminated from a competition, they are defeated and so take no further part in the competition.
例句
I was eliminated from the 400 metres in the semi-finals...
我在400米半決賽中被淘汰。
If you are eliminated in the show-jumping then you are out of the complete competition.
如果在馬術障礙賽中被淘汰,就意味著完全出局。
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VERB
消滅;干掉
If someone says that they have eliminated an enemy, they mean that they have killed them. By using the word 'eliminate', they are trying to make the action sound more positive than if they used the word 'kill'.
例句
He declared war on the government and urged right-wingers to eliminate their opponents...
他向政府宣戰,并煽動右翼分子干掉他們的對手。
The radio station claimed that 87,000 'reactionaries' had been eliminated.
廣播電臺聲稱已經消滅了87,000名“反動分子”。