blot

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blot1 /blɒt $ blɑːt/ verb (blotted, blotting) [transitiveT]

1. DRYto make a wet surface become dry by pressing soft paper or cloth on it 〔用软纸或布〕吸干

2. blot your copybook British EnglishBrE informalSPOIL to do something that spoils the idea that people have of you 玷污自己的名声

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blot your copybook• Mustn't blot my copybook by being late.

3 blot something ↔ out phrasal verbphr v

a) HIDE/MAKE IT HARD TO FIND OR SEEto cover or hide something completely 把…遮住，遮盖；涂去；隐藏

Thick white smoke blotted out the sun.

白色的浓烟遮住了太阳。

b) if you blot out an unpleasant memory, a thought etc, you deliberately try to forget it 抹去，有意地忘记〔不快的记忆、想法等〕

She said she took drugs to blot out her problems.

她说她吸毒是为了排遣烦恼。

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blot out• Actually he was a very nice man, cheerful and good-natured, but the other side of him blotted it all out.• Covered the sky, blotted it right out.• I've got to blot him out.• I use smack to blot things out.• Sandie closes her eyes and blots it out.• Would the daughter even remember her father with the perpetual presence of Hope to blot him out?• The washing of the northern blots was carried out according to standard methods.• She longed to blot it out, pretend the last few months had never happened.

4.blot something ↔ up phrasal verbphr v DRYto remove liquid from a surface by pressing soft paper or cloth onto it 〔用软纸或布〕吸干，擦干

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blot up• The mist seemed to blot him up.

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blot• Would the daughter even remember her father with the perpetual presence of Hope to blot him out?• Covered the sky, blotted it right out.• Any surface oil not absorbed after 10-15 minutes should be blotted off with a tissue.• But the last 16 minutes blotted out all the blundering and turned this into an unforgettable classic.• By the time I reached the small town of Pinedale the blue sky had been blotted out by ugly, sulphurous yellow.• A stage-a melee-heaving bodies-and then a huge hand filled the screen and blotted out everything for an instant.• Maybe I was blotting out my past, as provincials do, in my haste to get to where the action was.• Kendall and his shadow blotted the tunnel ahead.

blot2 noun [countableC]

1 MARKa mark or dirty spot on something, especially made by ink 〔尤指墨水弄成的〕污点，污渍

ink blots

墨水渍

2 SPOILa building, structure etc that is ugly and spoils the appearance of a place 破坏景致的东西

The new power station is a blot on the landscape.

那座新建的发电站真是煞风景。

3 SPOILsomething that spoils the good opinion that people have of someone or something 〔名誉上的〕污点，瑕疵

blot on

The increase in juvenile crime is a blot on our time.

青少年犯罪率上升是我们这个时代的耻辱。

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blot• I appeared twice like an ink blot on a folded sheet of paper: a passive, meaningless blur.• Right: Victor Hugo, ink blot, about 1855.• This ink blot, due to be exhibited, dates from Hugo's eighteen year-long political exile on the island of Jersey.• ink blots• He makes no blot who has no ink, Nor gathers honey who keeps no bees.• This man Otis is the one blot on the banner of southern California; he is the bar sinister on your escutcheon.• Clones displaying a preferential expression in early placenta after Southern blot analysis were selected and sequenced.• All transformed cell lines were examined by Southern blot hybridisation.• There has been only one report that has identified epoxide hydrolase in colonic carcinomas, by western blot analysis.

ink blots• Symmetry Symmetry requires mirror imagery, on the principle of the child's folded ink blots.• On the other side of the map there were several pictures which, from a distance, looked like ink blots.

blot on the landscape• The container site at North Farm is a real blot on the landscape.

blot on• The oil rigs are a blot on the coastline.• The massacre is one of the great blots on our nation's history.

Origin blot2

(1300-1400) Probably from a Scandinavian language

blot1 verbblot2 noun

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