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 .
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 .
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 .
