宣告它不成立
這一組最靠近拉丁文的起點:把「不算」說出來。差別只在對象是一句話,還是一個可以精確翻面的值。
verb · C1
To say or show that something is not true, or that it does not exist.
否認;指出某事不成立
Picture something being put on the table — a claim, a saving, a value — and then a single word spoken over it: not. Nothing is smashed and nothing is taken away; it is simply declared not to count. Everything on this page is that one move, aimed at a different target: at a statement, at a benefit, or at a number.
The packet's Wiktionary entry derives negate from Latin negatus, the perfect passive participle of nego, to deny, refuse, or decline, plus the verb-forming suffix -ate. The saying-no move is therefore in the word from the start.
封包裡的 Wiktionary 記錄說,negate 來自拉丁文 negātus,是動詞 negō(否認、拒絕)的完成被動分詞,再加上構成動詞的字尾 -ate。也就是說,「說不」這個動作從一開始就在這個字裡。
Wiktionary entry supplied in packet, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:621150291, etymology_text: From Latin negātus, perfect passive participle of negō (to deny, refuse, decline), see -ate.
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宣告它不成立
這一組最靠近拉丁文的起點:把「不算」說出來。差別只在對象是一句話,還是一個可以精確翻面的值。
verb · C1
To say or show that something is not true, or that it does not exist.
否認;指出某事不成立
把好處抵掉
同樣是「讓它不算數」,但這次不是用嘴巴說,而是另一股力量做出來的結果:本來有的好處,最後等於沒有。
verb · C1
To stop something from having any effect, so that the good it was going to do is cancelled out and nothing is gained.
抵銷;使失去效果