核心畫面
Something was set up to hold — an event on the calendar, a contract, a valid ticket — and you draw a line through it so it no longer stands. What was arranged is simply switched off; the plan, the agreement, or the piece of paper stops counting from that moment.
可以想成：本來有一件事是「成立」的——月曆上的活動、一份合約、一張還能用的票——你在上面畫一條線，它就不再算數了。安…更多收起
可以想成：本來有一件事是「成立」的——月曆上的活動、一份合約、一張還能用的票——你在上面畫一條線，它就不再算數了。安排好的東西被關掉，從那一刻起，計畫、協議或那張紙都失去效力。原始詞典資料17 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Cancelname
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A surname.
cancelverb/ˈkæn.sl̩/
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To cross out something with lines etc.
- A deed may be avoided by delivering it up to be cancelled; that is, to have lines drawn over it in the form of latticework or cancelli; the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it.
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To invalidate or annul something.
- He cancelled his order on their website.
- "I don't know what your agreement was, Herr Professor, but if it had money in it, cancel it. I want him to learn that lesson, too."
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To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
- This machine cancels the letters that have a valid zip code.
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To offset or equalize something.
- The corrective feedback mechanism cancels out the noise.
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mathematicssciencesTo remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
- Such a 2-handle cancels the 1-handle so the manifold is D⁴.
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mediaTo stop production of a programme.
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datedmediaprintingpublishingTo suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
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obsoleteTo shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
- cancelled from heaven
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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slangTo kill.
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To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable); to disinvite. Compare cancel culture.
- Bill Gates is canceled. Gwen Stefani and Erykah Badu are canceled. Despite his relatively strong play in the World Cup, Cristiano Ronaldo has been canceled. Taylor Swift is canceled and Common is canceled and, Wednesday, Antoni Porowski, a “Queer Eye” fan favorite was also canceled. Needless to say, Kanye West is canceled, too.
- We Spoke to Joan Cornellá, the Artist Who Really Should Have Been Cancelled By Now [title]
cancelnoun/ˈkæn.sl̩/
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A cancellation.
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A cancellation.
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obsoleteAn enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
- A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of serious thoughts, to a person whose spirit[…]desires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the body.
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mediaprintingpublishingThe suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
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mediaprintingpublishingThe page thus suppressed.
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mediaprintingpublishingThe page that replaces it.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。