词义
读音：blot /blɑːt/
词义：玷污，抹去，污点
词性：动词，名词
级别：GMAT
出处：出自14世纪晚期的中古英语，最初指墨水斑，后引申为道德污点，耻辱。15世纪初衍生动词义，表示弄脏，弄污；15世纪中期新增抹去，消除等含义。16世纪后，泛指任何深色斑块，并保留"名誉受损"的比喻义。
用法
作名词时，blot 指污渍或污点：
A single blot on the clean sheet of paper ruined the whole design.洁净纸张上的一个墨点毁了整个设计。
The city center has a huge blot from the oil spill.市中心因石油泄漏留下了巨大的油污斑。
That mistake was a blot on his otherwise perfect record.那个错误是他本完美记录上的一个污点。His rude behavior was a blot on the entire school.他粗鲁的行为给整个学校都抹了黑。
作动词时，blot 指玷污，涂掉或吸干(污渍)。
The scandal blotted his reputation forever.这一丑闻永远玷污了他的名声。She tried to blot the mistake from her memory.她试图把那个错误从记忆中抹去。The heavy rain blotted out the landscape.暴雨遮蔽了眼前的风景。His kindness blotted out the bad impression he had made before.他的善良抵消了他之前留下的坏印象。They used ink to blot out the wrong answers on the test paper.他们用墨水涂掉了试卷上的错误答案。
She used a piece of cloth to blot up the spilled coffee.她用一块布吸干了洒出来的咖啡。The doctor gently blotted the wound to dry it before applying the cream.医生在涂药膏前，轻轻吸干了伤口上的水分。
近义
动词 blot 的近义词按难度级别由低到高 (不含 诽谤 一义)：
中学
stain /steɪn/：玷污，染色
四六级
mar /mɑːr/：损害
出国
sully /'sʌlɪ/：玷污
taint /teɪnt/：玷污
besmear /bɪ'smr/：玷污
besmirch /bɪ'smɜːtʃ/：玷污
tarnish /'tɑːrnɪʃ/：使失去光泽，玷污
无级别
blacken /'blækən/：抹黑
相关
1. Blot 的派生词 blotter 指记录本或拘捕记录，法律用语，如 crime / police blotter (犯罪 / 出警记录)。
2. Blot 的同源近义词 blotch 只作名词，指大块，形状不规则，边缘模糊的污渍，或指人和动植物皮肤上的斑点，也可指道德上的污点。
影视
△Modern Family (《摩登家庭》第二季)
小说
以下文字摘自《哈利·波特与密室》(Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) 第13章《绝密日记》(Very Secret Diary)。
Harry sat on his four-poster and flicked through the blank pages, not one of which had a trace of scarlet ink on it. Then he pulled a new bottle out of his bedside cabinet, dipped his quill into it, and dropped a blot onto the first page of the diary.The ink shone brightly on the paper for a second and then, as though it was being sucked into the page, vanished. Excited, Harry loaded up his quill a second time and wrote,"My name is Harry Potter."
哈利坐在他的四柱床上，翻着那些空白的纸页，上面没有一点儿红墨水的痕迹。然后，他从床头柜里取出一瓶新墨水，将羽毛笔插进去蘸了蘸，让一滴墨水落在日记的第一页上。墨水在纸上鲜艳地闪耀了一秒钟，接着就好像被纸吸了进去，消失得无影无踪。哈利兴奋起来，他又将羽毛笔蘸满墨水，写道：“我叫哈利·波特。”
