喜樂美語

核心畫面

Think of it simply as 'can' with a door shut in front of it: whatever ability or permission 'can' opens up, cannot closes — the thing is not possible, not allowed, or just won't happen.

可以想成：就是 can 前面關上了一扇門。can 打開的那份「做得到、被允許」，cannot 通通把它關起來——這件…更多收起可以想成：就是 can 前面關上了一扇門。can 打開的那份「做得到、被允許」，cannot 通通把它關起來——這件事辦不到、不被准、或就是不會發生。

原始詞典資料4 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。

cannotverb/ˈkænɒt/

  • 1

    Can not; be unable to (whether due to physical inability, logical impossibility, etc.).

    • I cannot open the window. It is stuck.
    • The butler cannot be the murderer, he cannot have killed her, because he was in another city at the time.
  • 2

    Be forbidden or not permitted to.

    • The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Diſcharge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extinguiſh the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and conſequently of all the reſt, they being all correi debendi, lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Diſcharged as to one, and ſtand as to all the reſt.
    • The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.

cannotnoun/ˈkænɒt/

  • 1

    Something that cannot be done.

    • the cans and cannots
  • 2

    A person who cannot do (something).

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。