oblivion

忘却、消滅

完全に忘れられること、または跡形もなく消えること。

やさしい英語で： A state of being completely forgotten or destroyed, so that nothing remains.

• The once famous actor faded into oblivion.
• Bombs reduced the village to oblivion.
• Without written records, their stories might slip into oblivion.

使い方： fade into oblivion (His early novels faded into oblivion.); consign someone/something to oblivion (The new technology consigned the old machines to oblivion.)

類義語： obscurity, extinction

よく使う表現： fade into oblivion, consign to oblivion, bomb into oblivion

意識のない状態、忘我

周囲の出来事が全くわからず、または何も覚えていない状態。

やさしい英語で： A state in which you are completely unaware of what is happening or remember nothing.

• Sleep brought a few hours of oblivion.
• He drank himself into oblivion after the argument.
• She welcomed the peaceful oblivion of deep sleep.

使い方： into oblivion (Exhausted, she sank into oblivion.)

類義語： unconsciousness, unawareness

反対語： awareness

よく使う表現： drink into oblivion, sink into oblivion, peaceful oblivion

煉獄

死後、魂が待機したり天国に入るために清められたりする状態。

やさしい英語で： A state after death in which souls wait or are made ready for heaven.

• The tale places lost souls in oblivion.
• They believed oblivion was a stage before heaven.
• The poem describes spirits waiting in oblivion after death.

類義語： purgatory

よく使う表現： souls in oblivion, realm of oblivion

消し去る、抹消する

思い出す手がかりさえ残らないよう、完全に消し去る。

やさしい英語で： To erase or destroy something completely, leaving nothing to remember it by.

• Time will oblivion these names.
• The ruler tried to oblivion every record of the rebellion.
• The poet imagined a sea that oblivioned all human traces.

類義語： erase, obliterate, efface

反対語： preserve

よく使う表現： oblivion the past, oblivion something