disabuse

verb

1. 去掉（某人）的错误想法；使省悟
   to tell sb that what they think is true is, in fact, not true

1. VERB 使省悟;使消除（错误观点）
   If you disabuse someone of something, you tell them or persuade them that what they believe is in fact untrue.
   1. Their view of country people was that they like to please strangers. I did not disabuse them of this notion.
      他们认为乡下人爱讨好陌生人，对此观点我并未予以纠正。

1. Their view of country people was that they like to please strangers. I did not disabuse them of this notion.
   他们认为乡下人爱讨好陌生人，对此观点我并未予以纠正。
2. Let us disabuse ourselves of the idea that we are invincible.
   让我们打消我们是战无不胜的错误念头。
3. Just in case you wondered whether there might be some locational kinks here, I will disabuse you.
   万一你好奇其中是否可能存在着区位问题，那么我会反驳你。
4. But the daily tasks of marriage can quickly disabuse a couple of the notion that they have found such a perfect union.
   可是，每天婚姻工作很快地让两人从自己找到了完美联合中省悟。
5. If you think I'm going to lend you money, I must disabuse you of te wrong idea.
   你若认为我会借钱给你，我倒要劝你打消那念头。
6. I hate to disabuse you, but we haven't been given the afternoon off work, after all.
   我不愿打消你什么念头，可我们下午毕竟没放假。
7. Let me disabuse you of that notion.
   我来打消你这种错觉吧。
8. Once we disabuse ourselves of the prejudice, we can cooperate with each other quite well.
   一旦我们消除了这种偏见，就能很好地合作。
9. To disabuse you of belief in rational economic man, just look at the towers in Las Vegas and Macao, which demonstrate that people are willing to throw good money after bad indefinitely.
   要想打消你对理性经济人的信念，只要看看拉斯维加斯和澳门的那些高楼就可以了。它们表明，人们会一而再、再而三地用金钱追逐白日梦。
10. The first step is to disabuse ourselves of the notion that wealth is the surest guarantor of peace.
    第一步，是要使自己省悟认识到财富是最可靠的和平保证，这个概念。
11. Disabuse a person of his mistaken ideas
    纠正某人的错误想法
12. Disabuse sb of mistaken notions, false assumptions, etc.
    使某人去掉错误的观点、错误的设想等。
13. Disabuse on the Description of Chinese Trade Books XML-based Structure Definition of General Books
    中文普通图书著录解疑普通图书的XML描述

verb

1. free somebody (from an erroneous belief)