The skies darkened as ash blotted the sun from sight .

灰尘遮蔽了太阳，整个天空黑暗无光。

People who dislike themselves may acknowledge they have positive attributes but any emotional impact they have simply gets blotted out .

不喜欢自己的人通常承认他们具有积极的品质，但情绪上的影响掩盖了这些积极品质。

At the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia , war-crimes trials are screened in full , usually with a 30-minute buffer so that sensitive statements can be blotted out .

在前南斯拉夫国家法庭上，人们播放了庭审战犯的全过程，但是镜头播放前会有30分钟的缓冲间隔，这样可以提前删掉一些敏感的言论。

Japan 's disaster has triggered an unusual outpouring of sympathy and even admiration from china that has , for now at least , largely blotted out the historical antipathy many here have felt toward their neighbor .

日本遭遇的灾难在中国引发了一股不同寻常的同情、甚至钦佩之情，至少眼下，这股情感宣泄掩盖了许多中国人对邻国日本所抱有的反感。

Thewealth of nationsexerted such a colossal impact on the world that all knowledge of previous economists was blotted out , hence smith 's reputation as founding father .

《国富论》对世界产生了如此巨大的影响，使得所有之前的经济学家的知识都被抹杀，从而斯密成就了创立者的声名。