black-out

基本解釋

Curtains must be drawn during the black-out.
在燈火琯制期間必須拉上窗簾。
The power system restoration plan after all black-out, also called black-start , is an important problem which ensure the power system securely.
電力系統(tǒng)全停後的恢複計(jì)劃即黑啓動，是保証現(xiàn)代電力系統(tǒng)安全運(yùn)行的重要課題。
Internet search engines listed scores of postings on the riots, but access to most of the pages were blocked Sunday, indicating a possible government black-out.
因特網(wǎng)搜索引擎列出的分?jǐn)?shù)上張貼的暴動，但獲得大部分的網(wǎng)頁被封鎖星期日，這表明政府可能黑。

What about cell phones, the network for which disappears alarmingly quickly after a black-out?
FORBES: New York, Black Swans, Blackouts and Anti-Fragile Grids
Over time, the black-out rule has been unpopular and the subject of several antitrust challenges in courts of law.
FORBES: Time to Abandon The Blackout Rule, Pro Football's Sacred Cow
No standing in the corridors for hours, no being shunted off for a troop train to pass, and above all, no black-out curtains.
NPR: Part One

If you black out, you lose consciousness for a short time.
If a place is blacked out, it is in darkness, usually because it has no electricity supply.
If a film or a piece of writing is blacked out, it is prevented from being broadcast or published, usually because it contains information which is secret or offensive.
If you black out a piece of writing, you colour over it in black so that it cannot be seen.
If you black out the memory of something, you try not to remember it because it upsets you.
&rarrsee also blackout