wipe off the map

基本解释

For Israelis, whose country Mr Ahmadinejad says he wants to wipe off the map, it is not all that reassuring to hear that Iran can "probably" be deterred.
艾哈迈迪内贾德认为以色列应该从世界地图上抹去，所以对于以色列国民来说，仅仅听到伊朗的（核计划）“很可能”会被中止显然是不能全然安心的。
If the coalition air strikes overtly go after the leader himself, Col Gaddafi will press a secret button in his bunker which will detonate bombs across the country and wipe it off the map.
如果联军空袭敢公然对卡扎菲上校进行斩首行动，上校就会按下防空洞中的那个神秘按钮，引爆埋在利比亚全境的炸弹，让这个国家从地图上消失。
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Iranian President Ahmadinejad DID NOT threaten to wipe Israel off the map .
“伊朗总统内贾德没有威胁到”以色列从地图上抹去。

That is a cause of great concern here because Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has threatened to wipe the Jewish state "off the map."
But Israeli spokesman Zalman Shoval says with Iran's president still threatening to wipe the Jewish state "off the map", Israel is making no promises.
Israel is alarmed by Iran's recent test firing of its longest-range missile and previous threats by its president to wipe the Jewish state "off the map."

How could they afford to sit by while the regime pledged to wipe them off the map was equipping itself with nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them?
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