eliminate: [16] To eliminate somebody is literally to ‘kick them out of doors’. The word comes from the past participle of Latin ēlīnāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and līmen ‘threshhold’ (source also of English subliminal and probably sublime). At first it was used in English with its original Latin sense (‘the secounde sorte thearfore, that eliminate Poets out of their citie gates’, Giles Fletcher, Christ’s Victorie 1610), and it was not until the early 18th century that the more general modern notion of ‘exclusion’ began to develop. => sublime, subliminal
eliminate (v.)
1560s, from Latin eliminatus, past participle of eliminare "thrust out of doors, expel," from ex limine "off the threshold," from ex "off, out" (see ex-) + limine, ablative of limen "threshold" (see limit (n.)).
Used literally at first; sense of "exclude" first attested 1714; sense of "expel waste from the body" is c. 1795. Related: Eliminated; eliminating; eliminative; eliminatory.
实用例句
1. You could never eliminate risk, but preparation and training could attenuate it.
风险不可能完全消除，但可以通过防范和培训来降低。
来自柯林斯例句
2. America wants to eliminate tariffs on items such as electronics.
美国打算取消电子产品等的关税。
来自柯林斯例句
3. Credit cards eliminate the need to carry a lot of cash.
有了信用卡就用不着携带很多现金。
来自《权威词典》
4. She went through the typescript carefully to eliminate all errors from it.
