英['kænsl]美['kænsl]
记忆方法
词源词根法
中世纪罗马抄写员在抄写出现笔误时就会打上一个叉,表示撤销。多个叉连在一起就成了XXXX,就像斜方栏杆一样。这种斜方栏杆在拉丁文中就是cancelli。后来演变成了英语中的cancel,表示“撤销”。=和cancel拼写很接近的单词chancel(教堂高坛)和cancel一样来自拉丁文cancelli(斜方栏杆),原指教堂中把牧师和听众隔开的栏杆,后来转指牧师和唱诗班用的高坛,即教堂前段围绕圣坛的一个区域,与下面的听众席分开的,中间一般会用栏杆隔开。=cancel:['k?nsl]n v撤销,取消,删去=chancel:['t?ɑ?ns(?)l]n教堂高坛
谐音记忆法
谐音:刊首,删去刊首。
verb(动词)
双解例句
verb(动词)
小知识
To cancel means to call off or postpone indefinitely. Which is probably what you would do if the hotel you were planning to stay in has an infestation of bedbugs.
Scrub, scratch, or strike down — those are all other ways of saying cancel. People often cancel plans, deciding not to do something they had already scheduled. In math, if the numerator and a denominator of a fraction have common factors you can cancel the factors out, which means delete them. To cancel a debt means to get rid of it. A cancel on a postage stamp is the mark that shows it has been used.
实用短语
常用短语
单词用法
词语辨析
以下这些动词均包含”取消,废除”之意
abolish:正式用词,指彻底废除某种制度、规章或习俗。
cancel:单词用法广泛,多指取消债务、合同、证书、比赛、旅行、计划或约会等。
repeal书面用词,指撤销立法机关通过的协议、法案或法律等。
abolish:正式用词,指彻底废除某种制度、规章或习俗。
cancel:单词用法广泛,多指取消债务、合同、证书、比赛、旅行、计划或约会等。
repeal书面用词,指撤销立法机关通过的协议、法案或法律等。
近似词汇
cancer n.癌症
重要短语
cancel button 取消按钮
cancel out 取消;抵销
cancel after verification 核销
cancel out 取消;抵销
cancel after verification 核销