Eighty-six has also been used in popular culture to mean dismiss or even kill.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

In The Iliad, as you can see, the warrior Glaucus uses the simile of the leaves to dismiss the importance of genealogy.

在里，你们会发现，武士格劳休斯,用了落叶的比喻来降低家族谱系的重要性。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But before we dismiss Aristotle's account as insufferably inegalitarian and elitist, we have to ask a difficult question, not just of Aristotle, but more importantly of ourselves.

但在我们驳斥亚里士多德的论点之前,即令人无法忍受的不平等及精英者论点，我们必需要问一个艰难的问题，不只是关于亚里士多德，对我们更是重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Instead,doctors use a patient's medical history and testing to dismiss other treatable conditions.

VOA: special.2011.01.18

They use a very colloquial kind of term to dismiss him.

他们用非常口语化的措辞开除了摩西。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Chrysler wants to quickly dismiss almost eight hundred dealers across the country.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

And it is so easy to dismiss those data.

很容易就会排除掉那些数据。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

His job is to dismiss people from their jobs.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

Then,we need to dismiss. No more questions?

那么就下课了，没有问题了吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

They demanded that President Pierce dismiss him.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

So, we would dismiss that one.

所以这个就算了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Many scientists dismiss the comet theory.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

So attempts to dismiss the appeal to near- death experiences on what we might call philosophical grounds-- this would be the bad notion of philosophy-- on philosophical grounds, I think that's got to be misguided.

因此想要在哲学基础上,驳回这种诉诸濒死体验,这可不是一个好的哲学观,从哲学基础上来看,我想那是不明智的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Mister Yamasaki's employer did not dismiss him.

VOA: special.2011.04.01

It's as if Milton places the beautiful poetry of Shakespeare into the mouth of this evil magician so as to dismiss all the more easily the easy, L'Allegro-mode of poetry that Shakespeare seems for Milton to embody.

这就好像弥尔顿把莎士比亚美丽的诗句,放进了邪恶魔术师的口中,所以可以更容易地反驳，好像莎士比亚把L’Allegro模式诗给弥尔顿去具体化。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

They demanded that President Lincoln dismiss him.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

"Trafficking thrives in the shadows. And it can be easy to dismiss it as something that happens to someone else, somewhere else.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

So I don't think that we should dismiss those threats. Brian Fishman says it is unlikely that Shahzad was a well-trained TTP operative.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

"You know people just dismiss it all the time when in fact it's a clear biological disorder that has very big influences on affected individuals."

VOA: standard.2010.02.11

International investors and analysts have expressed concerns however about the independence of Hungary's central bank in this process, after Mr.Orban suggested he may dismiss the bank's governor for alleged mismanagement.

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

But many workers dismiss the federation as useless.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24