英和和英

動詞

unrepresent (third-person singular simple present unrepresents, present participle unrepresenting, simple past and past participle unrepresented)

1. (transitive) To undo the representation of; to refuse or cease to represent.
   • 2013, Catherine Bates, “Waste-full Crossings in Thomas King’s Truth & Bright Water”, in Gillian Roberts, David Stirrup, editors, Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada–US Border (Cultural Studies), Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, →ISBN, page 158:

     As such, he paints the “Indians” back into the nineteenth-century landscapes that have attempted to unrepresent them; he tries (repeatedly) to rebury the skull; he installs signs to “teac[h] the Grass about Green” (43) and “Sky about Blue” (45); he replaces the buffalo with iron versions; and he tries to paint away the church.