cancel /ˈkænsəl/ CET4 TEM4 ( cancelling, cancelled, cancels )

• 1. 

  V-T/V-I If you cancel something that has been arranged, you stop it from happening. If you cancel an order for goods or services, you tell the person or organization supplying them that you no longer wish to receive them. 取消

  例：

  The Russian foreign minister yesterday cancelled his visit to Washington.

  俄外交部长昨天取消了对华盛顿的访问。

  例：

  Many trains have been cancelled and a limited service is operating on other lines.

  许多列车都被取消了，少数班次在其他路线运行。

  例：

  The customer called to cancel.

  顾客打电话来取消了。

• 2. 

  cancellation N-VAR 取消

  例：

  Outbursts of violence forced the cancellation of Haiti's first free elections in 1987.

  暴力事件的爆发迫使海地取消了1987年的首次自由选举。

• 3. 

  V-T If someone in authority cancels a document, an insurance policy, or a debt, they officially declare that it is no longer valid or no longer legally exists. 废止; 废除

  例：

  He intends to try to leave the country, in spite of a government order cancelling his passport.

  他不顾废止他的护照的政府命令，仍打算要离开这个国家。

• 4. 

  cancellation N-UNCOUNT 废止; 废除

  例：

  ...a march by groups calling for cancellation of Third World debt.

  …要求解除第三世界的债务的一场集体游行。

• 5. 

  V-T To cancel a stamp or a cheque means to mark it to show that it has already been used and cannot be used again. 盖销; 使作废

  例：

  The new device can also cancel the cheque after the transaction is complete.

  这种新设备还能在交易结束后将支票注销。