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/to wipe clean/to scrub/

圖為南投縣慈慧善行協會會員們為「老余」洗刷廚房。
The photo above shows volunteers from the Nantou Charitable Association cleaning house for "Old Yu."

他們提供住家後院的水泥牆作為社區小朋友的畫布。星期天早上,孩子們迫不及待地來報到,他們可以用粉筆在上面恣意地塗鴉。這塊天然的畫布可以一再使用、非常環保,因為只要一場雨就可以把畫布洗刷乾淨。
Local kids come to the house to draw with chalk on a concrete wall in the back yard. They show up every Sunday morning and can hardly wait to begin. The wall provides an environmentally sound drawing surface that can be used over and over, because every rain shower washes it clean.

有人忙著洗刷海岸邊撿來的蚵仔殼,
Here people are hard at work scrubbing oyster shells that have been picked up from the beach.

「每天從清晨3點做到中午1點,收拾、洗刷好都已經下午3點了,回到家只能『癱』在床上睡覺。」
"Every day we start at 3:00 a.m., stay open until 1:00, then by the time everything is cleaned up and packed away it is 3:00 in the afternoon, and the only thing to do is go home and 'pass out' in bed."

11月進入雨季後,大雨洗刷著面積達2,400平方公里的摩洛泰島。
With the November arrival of the monsoons, heavy rains lash the 2,400 square kilometer island.

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/(fig.) to get rid of (a bad reputation, a misconception etc)/

這更讓他確信,他是徽宗的臣子,今生的使命是為宋徽宗洗刷千百年來人們對他的誤解,還他歷史應有的地位。
He became even more convinced that he was once a high official in the court of Huizong, and that his mission in this life was to rectify the misunderstandings so many people have held about Huizong over the centuries, and to restore to him his proper historical status.

《塑膠》不但用具體的事證,還原了卡債族掉落陷阱的過程,洗刷了這些人被認為是「罪有應得」的污名,也揭穿了整個金融體制的貪婪與嗜血。
But the book does more than offer concrete evidence; by describing the process by which people fall into heavy credit-card debt, it also dispels the notion that these debtors are "getting what they deserve," and exposes the greed and mercilessness that characterize the entire financial system.

不如說是希望洗刷台籍日本兵的污名。

還有想要洗刷被殖民者「低一等」身份的想望下,
They were motivated by the atmosphere around them of going on a "crusade" for their country and a desire to erase the stigma of being regarded as a "lower caste" in colonial society.

也洗刷了十大首惡工程的前恥。
and at the same time alleviating the shame of being responsible for one the nation's ten worst construction projects.

二來也洗刷華人不重視生態的惡名。
and also wiping out the bad reputation the Chinese had for not valuing the ecology.

自律之外也幫忙監督檢舉不法商人伐山盜林等破壞山岳生態的行為,洗刷「野巒遊戲」、「山林終結者」的惡名,成為台灣山林保護的生力軍。
or even go beyond self-control to act as volunteer environmental watchdogs and inform the authorities of illegal felling and other behavior that threatens the mountain environment, then they would no longer bear the ugly monikers "players of barbaric games" and "environmental terminators" and instead be regarded as good soldiers in the fight to preserve Taiwan's mountain forests.

非逼我回去洗刷冤屈不可。
He thought he had to force me to go back and clear my name.

為了洗刷社會對水利官員貪腐的刻板印象,
In order to erase the deep-rooted image of corruption that people hold about water resource administrators

能洗刷外界對漫畫的偏見,
and thus could help erase some of the prejudices against comics,
Diff:
- 洗刷 洗刷 [xi3 shua1] /wash/brush/scrub/
+ 洗刷 洗刷 [xi3 shua1] /to wipe clean/to scrub/(fig.) to get rid of (a bad reputation, a misconception etc)/
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