不讓人參與或進入
被留在圈外的是人：他想加入、想進去，卻被擋下來。
shut out · verb · B2
To stop someone from joining an activity or from going into a place, often in a way that feels unfair.
把…排除在外；不讓…參加
核心畫面
Picture a circle drawn around what counts, and something deliberately left outside it — off the list, out of the price, out of the room. Exclude is that leaving-out, and it is always a decision someone made. Leave a person outside and it stings; leave a possibility outside and you have ruled it out.
可以想成：畫一個圈，圈起「算數的東西」，然後刻意把某樣東西留在圈外——不列入清單、不含在價格裡、不准進門。exclu…更多收起
可以想成：畫一個圈，圈起「算數的東西」，然後刻意把某樣東西留在圈外——不列入清單、不含在價格裡、不准進門。exclude 就是這個「留在外面」，而且一定是有人做的決定。被留在外面的如果是人，會很難受；如果是一種可能性，那就是把它從答案裡刪掉了。From the picture
Also in this word
leave out (not include) · verb · B2
To decide not to include something in a group, a list, a price, or a set of numbers.
不包含；排除
rule out · verb · C1
To decide that something is not possible or not true, so you stop thinking about it as an answer.
排除（可能性）
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。
excludeverb/ɪksˈkluːd/
- 1
To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.
- One end of the east-west building is wet, the other windy, and at present there is smoke abounding, too; but these distressing yard elements can be completely excluded at each end by full-width folding doors [...].
- [T]he 1924 Immigration Act was designed specifically to exclude Eastern European Jews (among other undesirable European ethnic groups) from entering the country.
- 2
To expel; to put out.
- to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs
- […] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]
- 3
To omit from consideration.
- Count from 1 to 30, but exclude the prime numbers.
- 4
lawTo refuse to accept (evidence) as valid.
- 5
medicinesciencesTo eliminate from diagnostic consideration.
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。