black-out

基本解释

Curtains must be drawn during the black-out.
在灯火管制期间必须拉上窗帘。
The power system restoration plan after all black-out, also called black-start , is an important problem which ensure the power system securely.
电力系统全停后的恢复计划即黑启动，是保证现代电力系统安全运行的重要课题。
Internet search engines listed scores of postings on the riots, but access to most of the pages were blocked Sunday, indicating a possible government black-out.
因特网搜索引擎列出的分数上张贴的暴动，但获得大部分的网页被封锁星期日，这表明政府可能黑。

What about cell phones, the network for which disappears alarmingly quickly after a black-out?
FORBES: New York, Black Swans, Blackouts and Anti-Fragile Grids
Over time, the black-out rule has been unpopular and the subject of several antitrust challenges in courts of law.
FORBES: Time to Abandon The Blackout Rule, Pro Football's Sacred Cow
No standing in the corridors for hours, no being shunted off for a troop train to pass, and above all, no black-out curtains.
NPR: Part One

If you black out, you lose consciousness for a short time.
If a place is blacked out, it is in darkness, usually because it has no electricity supply.
If a film or a piece of writing is blacked out, it is prevented from being broadcast or published, usually because it contains information which is secret or offensive.
If you black out a piece of writing, you colour over it in black so that it cannot be seen.
If you black out the memory of something, you try not to remember it because it upsets you.
&rarrsee also blackout