Thayer called this obliterate shading, and he believed that by obliterating shadows, animals made themselves look flatter.

塞耶称之为抹去阴影，他认为通过抹去阴影，动物让自己看起来更扁平。

Covid-19 is obliterating this at such an astonishing rate that analysts cannot adjust their models quickly enough.

Covid-19正以如此惊人的速度抹去这一切，以至于分析师们无法快速地调整他们的模型。

I'm just sitting down and my leg stretches his leg is obliterating obliterating.

我刚坐下，我的腿伸直了，他的腿就消失了。

On either side walked a giant white man, heavy blonde beards almost obliterating their countenances.

两边走着一个高大的白人，浓密的金色胡须几乎抹去了他们的容貌。

Naked bulbs shine round the clock, obliterating night and day.

裸露的灯泡全天候发光，消除了白天和黑夜。

I explained that I was afraid of obliterating any foot-marks.

我解释说我害怕抹掉任何脚印。

Then the fog came down, obliterating everything.

【obliterate】随后大雾降下，笼罩了一切。

A minute's silence, then the taxi again, its boisterous retreat almost obliterating the scrape of footsteps on the cinder walk.

一分钟的沉默， 然后又是出租车， 它喧闹的撤退几乎抹去了煤渣路上的脚步声。

The white men in Jamestown devised a plan that they would kidnap her and use her as leverage, to stop Chief Powhatan from completely obliterating the colony.

詹姆斯敦的白人设计了一个计划，绑架波卡洪塔斯并利用她作为筹码来阻止波瓦坦酋长彻底摧毁这个殖民地。

It's often not the wind that actually kills a person in a tornado but the vast amount of debris that the tornado picks up from obliterating houses and buildings.

在龙卷风中，真正致人于死地的往往不是风，而是龙卷风从毁灭的房屋和建筑物中带走的大量碎片。

It took three months to get the boat upright  and seaworthy, after which the Scharnhorst snapped her moorings and unexpectedly slid into  the harbor at Kiel, obliterating two barges.

沙恩霍斯特号花了三个月的时间才使船恢复正常并适合航行，之后沙恩霍斯特号突然断锚并滑入基尔港口，撞毁了两艘驳船。

In fact, the most popular theory regarding the extinction of dinosaurs is related to an asteroid that slammed into Earth, causing widespread destruction and obliterating most life forms in the global aftermath.

事实上，关于恐龙灭绝最流行的理论与一颗小行星撞击地球有关，它造成了广泛的破坏，并在全球范围内毁灭了大多数生命形式。

Each of these defensive missiles maybe only about 10 feet long but has some 24 pounds of high explosives and when they're close enough they detonate, obliterating everything in that part of the sky.

每一枚防御性导弹可能只有10英尺长，但是有24磅的烈性炸药，当它们足够接近时就会引爆，毁灭天空中的一切。

In 3.3 billion years, there is a 1% chance that Mercury's orbit will become unstable which will cause it to collide with Venus obliterating both planets and throwing the inner solar system into chaos.

在 33 亿年后，有 1% 的几率水星的轨道会变得不稳定，这将导致它与金星相撞，使两颗行星湮灭，并使太阳系内部陷入混乱。

The heavily armed British responded by  obliterating the Chinese ships. The conflict ended with the Treaty of Nanking, signed in 1842,   but it did not end the opium crisis in China.

全副武装的英国人以摧毁中国船只作为回应。这场冲突以 1842 年签署的《南京条约》结束， 但并未结束中国的鸦片危机。

But when we take the question literally as in 'What would happen if we lost the oxygen atom completely? ', obliterating it from compounds like water, quartz, and ozone, then the results become more devastating.

但当我们把问题具体到“如果我们完全失去氧原子会怎么样？”时，将它从水、石英和臭氧等化合物中剔除，那结果会更具破坏性。

There he murdered the Muggle man who had abandoned his witch mother, and, for good measure, his Muggle grandparents. thus obliterating the last of the unworthy Riddle line and revenging himself upon the father who never wanted him.

杀死了那个抛弃他那巫师母亲的麻瓜，顺带杀掉了他的麻瓜祖父母，抹去了不争气的里德尔家族，也报复了从来不想要他的生父。