喜樂美語
  1. 1廢除、廢止（法律、條例）

    When a government repeals a law, it officially ends that law. The rule is no longer a rule. Parliaments repeal; news headlines repeal. It is a legal, public word, not a kitchen word. You do not repeal a family rule or a school notice in casual speech — you cancel it, drop it, get rid of it. The noun is used too: ‘the repeal of the tax.’ Careful neighbours: appeal is asking a court to look at a case again; repel is to push something away. Repeal and repel look like cousins, and they do share an old Latin parent, but they went different ways in English. Repeal is for laws. You will meet it in class and in the newspaper, not in the .

From the word’s history

From Anglo-Norman repeler, from Old French rapeler 'to call back, revoke'.

源自盎格魯諾曼語 repeler，來自古法文 rapeler「叫回、撤銷」。

Wiktionary

組成From Old French rapeler, ‘to call back,’ from Latin re- (back) + pellō (push). It is a doublet of repel — same old source, two English words now.

同家族的字

  • repelsame Latin source; they are doublets, but repeal ends a law and repel pushes something away

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

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repealverb/ɹəˈpiːl/

  • 1

    To cancel, invalidate, annul.

    • to repeal a law
    • […] I here divorce myself Both from thy table, Henry, and thy bed, Until that act of parliament be repeal’d Whereby my son is disinherited.
  • 2

    To recall; to summon (a person) again; to bring (a person) back from exile or banishment.

    • There weepe, for till my Gaueston be repeald, Assure thy selfe thou comst not in my sight.
    • The banish’d Bolingbroke repeals himself, And with uplifted arms is safe arrived […]
  • 3

    To suppress; to repel.

    • Whence Adam soon repeal’d The doubts that in his heart arose.

repealnoun/ɹəˈpiːl/

  • 1

    An act or instance of repealing.

    • Wednesday June 02, 2021, Has the Northern Ireland Protocol undermined the United Kingdom? When a newer Act of Parliament is incompatible with earlier law, it usually takes precedence, under the doctrine of “implied repeal”.

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