b)FORGETto stop yourself thinking about something or remembering it 不去想,抹去
a memory so terrible that she tried to block it out
她努力想抹去的可怕记忆
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block out• But I can block everything out.• It was so horrific, I think my memory has blocked it out.• So at the Washington game two nights later I decided to block it out.• I've just blocked it out and it hasn't changed my attitude to cars, except that they're not safe enough.• Though she seemed not to notice them, apparently had the ability to block them out, even to forget about them.• She had blocked him out since his mention of the two unpublishednovels.• He said it could follow an incident so dire that the mind had to block it out, sometimes along with other things.• Every word stops me turning away and closing my eyes, to block it out, to let me retreat into sleep.