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To countermand an order is to officially cancel it, usually by sending a new order that says the first one no longer stands. It is not a casual “oh, never mind.” Someone with authority tells people to ignore what they were told before. You meet it with the army, the police, courts, and offices: a commander countermands a march; a manager countermands an instruction. It can also be a noun for that cancelling order, but the verb is more common. It is formal, a little old-fashioned, and rather sharp. Though actually, if two bosses send opposite orders, workers may not know which one really countermands the other — the word assumes a clear chain of command.
撤回成命、撤銷命令
原始詞典資料8 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。
countermandverb/ˌkaʊntəˈmɑːnd/
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To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given.
- Near-synonym: counteract
- to countermand an order for goods
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To recall a person or unit with such an order.
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To cancel an order for (some specified goods).
- Three of the maids of honour ſent to countermand their birth-day cloaths; two of them burnt all their collections of novels and romances, and ſent to a bookſeller’s in Pall-mall to buy each of them a bible, and Taylor’s holy living and dying.
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To counteract, to act against, to frustrate.
- Early on, Ezra gives her a lesson to countermand the endless female impulse to apologise: “Darling, don’t continually say ‘I’m sorry’. Next time you feel like saying ‘I’m sorry’, instead say ‘Fuck you’.”
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obsoleteTo prohibit (a course of action or behavior).
- Avicen countermands letting blood in choleric bodles.
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obsoleteTo oppose or revoke the command of (someone).
- For us to alter anything, is to lift ourselves against God; and, as it were, to countermand him.
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obsoleteTo maintain control of, to keep under command.
- Two thousand horſe ſhal forrage vp and downe, That no reliefe or ſuccour come by land. And all the ſea my Gallies countermaund.
countermandnoun/ˌkaʊntəˈmɑːnd/
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An order to the contrary of a previous one.
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。