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词汇 memory hole
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Definition of memory hole in English:

memory hole

noun
  • An imaginary place where inconvenient or unpleasant information is put and quickly forgotten.

    记忆洞;忘怀洞

    now that the trial's been postponed the whole case has dropped into the memory hole
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Well, I'm wondering whether the attention may have been unwelcome because now the website seems to be down the memory hole.
    • He explains the long delay by saying he had been ‘straining to recover [the recollection] from a very deep memory hole.’
    • It was published earlier this month and fell down the memory hole.
    • So I expect that barring some explosive news (that incorporates real proof and not just assumptions this time) it'll be down the memory hole within a month.
    • Then sell this mess of pottage by throwing reason, history and the economic facts of reality down the memory hole.
    • Never underestimate the power of public relations efforts to determine what is remembered and what vanishes down the memory hole.
    • It turns out that I was there for the last home win in Montreal Expos history, a small claim to fame that I'll hold onto tightly as the team fades down the memory hole.
    • It simply threw the embarrassing document down the memory hole.
    • Straight down the memory hole with you, history!
    • Check them out now, as I predict these original claims will soon disappear down the memory hole.
    • I know the gadflies will keep on gadding - and more power to them - but this is clearly a story the media elites are determined to stuff down the memory hole.
    • While things are spiraling down into the memory hole it sometimes makes sense to give them a few quick tugs before they vanish into oblivion altogether.
    • Will they allow their most unique legal rights to slip down the memory hole?
    • Joan of Arc, Roland and Vercingetorix, all hardly known in France before 1870, were rescued from the memory hole by a nation that needed martyrs after the Prussian victory.
    • For a peek at previous party lines, long since flushed down the memory hole, see this post.
    • My work had disappeared down the cyber memory hole.
    • It appears that the time is now to snatch these scraps of history back out of the memory hole.
    • Other fine buildings, however, have vanished down the memory hole so quickly that the architects could write only their obituaries.
    • Oftentimes it is corporate reasons, such as copyright, that cause material to slide down the memory hole.
    • One more film in 1957 and then Garrett seemed a forgotten name buried deep down some memory hole.

Origin

From George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, which described a slot where historical documents could be disposed of to allow for manipulation of memories of the past.

Definition of memory hole in US English:

memory hole

noun
  • An imaginary place where inconvenient or unpleasant information is put and quickly forgotten.

    记忆洞;忘怀洞

    now that the trial's been postponed the whole case has dropped into the memory hole
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He explains the long delay by saying he had been ‘straining to recover [the recollection] from a very deep memory hole.’
    • While things are spiraling down into the memory hole it sometimes makes sense to give them a few quick tugs before they vanish into oblivion altogether.
    • Joan of Arc, Roland and Vercingetorix, all hardly known in France before 1870, were rescued from the memory hole by a nation that needed martyrs after the Prussian victory.
    • So I expect that barring some explosive news (that incorporates real proof and not just assumptions this time) it'll be down the memory hole within a month.
    • It was published earlier this month and fell down the memory hole.
    • Straight down the memory hole with you, history!
    • It turns out that I was there for the last home win in Montreal Expos history, a small claim to fame that I'll hold onto tightly as the team fades down the memory hole.
    • Will they allow their most unique legal rights to slip down the memory hole?
    • Check them out now, as I predict these original claims will soon disappear down the memory hole.
    • For a peek at previous party lines, long since flushed down the memory hole, see this post.
    • Never underestimate the power of public relations efforts to determine what is remembered and what vanishes down the memory hole.
    • I know the gadflies will keep on gadding - and more power to them - but this is clearly a story the media elites are determined to stuff down the memory hole.
    • My work had disappeared down the cyber memory hole.
    • One more film in 1957 and then Garrett seemed a forgotten name buried deep down some memory hole.
    • It appears that the time is now to snatch these scraps of history back out of the memory hole.
    • Well, I'm wondering whether the attention may have been unwelcome because now the website seems to be down the memory hole.
    • Other fine buildings, however, have vanished down the memory hole so quickly that the architects could write only their obituaries.
    • Oftentimes it is corporate reasons, such as copyright, that cause material to slide down the memory hole.
    • Then sell this mess of pottage by throwing reason, history and the economic facts of reality down the memory hole.
    • It simply threw the embarrassing document down the memory hole.

Origin

From George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, which described a slot where historical documents could be disposed of to allow for manipulation of memories of the past.

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