核心畫面
Picture something already written into the diary — a concert, a flight, a booking — and then a line drawn through it: it was going to happen, and now it will not. Cancellation is that line. Whether what gets crossed out is an event or an agreement, the picture is the same.
可以想成:行事曆上已經寫好的一筆——一場演唱會、一班飛機、一個訂位——被畫上一條線:本來要發生,現在不會了。canc…更多收起
可以想成:行事曆上已經寫好的一筆——一場演唱會、一班飛機、一個訂位——被畫上一條線:本來要發生,現在不會了。cancellation 就是那一條線。被劃掉的可以是一場活動,也可以是你跟別人之間的一份約定,畫面是同一個,差別只在劃掉的是「事」還是「約」。原始詞典資料5 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。
cancellationnoun/kænsəˈleɪʃən/
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The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
- Then, in January, a creeping tsunami of train cancellations, triggered by major staff absences as a result of the aggressive transmissibility of Omicron, heaped further misery on rail users.
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mathematicssciencesThe operation of striking out common factors, e.g. in both the dividend and divisor.
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hobbieslifestylephilatelyA postmark that marks a postage stamp so as to prevent its reuse.
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lawIn United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to cancel the registration of a trademark or patent.
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anatomymedicinesciencesThe property of being cancellate.
- 194?, Columbia University. School of Dental and Oral Surgery, Principles of Radiodontia Spongy bone is composed of cancellated areas appearing as a fine, interlacing network. These cancellated spaces are irregular both in size and shape. The normal cancellation is rather large […]
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。