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tocausesomething to have noeffect: 使无效，取消Theincreaseinourprofitshas been negated by therisingcostsofrunningthebusiness.我们的盈利增长被日益增加的经营成本所抵消。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesUseless and futile - a mug's gameidiom
- adrift
- aimless
- aimlessly
- aimlessness
- airy-fairy
- frivolous
- frivolousness
- fruitless
- fruitlessly
- fruitlessness
- moon around
- motiveless
- negation
- no goodidiom
- unfruitful
- unrealistic
- unrealistically
- untilyou areblue in the faceidiom
- unviability
See more results » GrammarNegation When we want to say that something is not true or is not the case, we can use negative words, phrases or clauses. Negation can happen in a number of ways, most commonly, when we use a negative word such as no, not, never, none, nobody, etc:… Forming negative statements, questions and imperatives We form negative statements with not or n’t after be, modal and auxiliary verbs. n’t is the contracted form of not. In informal language we can add n’t, without a space, to be, to modal verbs (except may) and to auxiliary verbs (do and have). The negative contracted form of will is won’t. The uncontracted form of can + not is cannot.… Negation: two negatives Standard English does not have two negatives in the same clause (double negatives). Words such as never, nobody, no one, none, nothing, nowhere, etc. already have a negative meaning, so we don’t need another negative with the verb:… Negative clauses withany,anybody,anyone,anything,anywhere We don’t use not with some, someone, somebody, something, somewhere in statements. We use any, anyone, anybody, anything, anywhere:… Negation in non-finite clauses Non-finite clauses are clauses without a subject, where the main verb is in the to-infinitive form, the -ing form or the -ed form. To make the negative of a non-finite clause, we can use not.… Negative prefixes and suffixes We use these prefixes most commonly in negation: de-, dis-, il-/im-/in-/ir-, mis-, non-, un-:… Negative adverbs:hardly, seldom, etc. Some adverbs (e.g. hardly, little, never, only, scarcely and seldom) have a negative meaning. When we use these at the beginning of the clause, we invert the subject and verb:… Negation: emphasising When we want to emphasise something negative, we often use at all. We normally use at all immediately after the word or phrase we are emphasising:… Negation ofthink,believe,suppose,hope When we use verbs like think, believe, suppose (mental process verbs) to express uncertainty about something, we usually use not with the mental process verb rather than with the verb in the following clause:… negate| American Dictionaryto show something to bewrongor to be theoppositeof what wasthought, or tocausesomething to have noeffect: Theincreaseinsaleswas negated by therisingcostofmaterials. Examplesofnegatenegate In other words, this analysis does notnegateprevious findings that opinion change and attitude stability vary by political sophistication.From theCambridge English Corpus Finding discrepancies between oral traditions and other sources does notnegatethe value of oral traditions as historical evidence.From theCambridge English Corpus That some of these products are astonishingly beautiful does notnegatethe essential naivety of the thinking.From theCambridge English Corpus This second factor almost totally negates the progressive reading of the first.From theCambridge English Corpus If the constraints are linear, wenegatethem and test for unsatisfiability.From theCambridge English Corpus But the attempt tonegatea piece of nonsense results in another piece of nonsense.From theCambridge English Corpus This negates the influence of economic, material, physical, social and cultural factors on how individuals experience ageing and negotiate their lives in old age.From theCambridge English Corpus This constraint seems tonegateany awesomeness or glory or sublimity of the little totality.From theCambridge English Corpus In this paper we study an alternative model which incorporates a time delay explicitly, negating the need for the auxiliary equations.From theCambridge English Corpus Even a simplistic rational analysis of corrupt behaviour highlights its harmful effects on society, thus negating it as a rational course of action.From theCambridge English Corpus However, the rules are only temporary manifestations of an ongoing dialogue that by its very nature works continuously to change "rules" andnegatethem.From theCambridge English Corpus However, a combination of improperly explained technologies and immediate comfort needs sometimes negates the positive effect of natural technologies.From theCambridge English Corpus It negates rigid unities, affirms plurality, and transforms a lack into a plenitude.From theCambridge English Corpus The unknown but substantial degree of interdependence among many of the sources also negates claims regarding the ' precision' of estimates.From theCambridge English Corpus In the case of "there is no police situation," this is a response to the interviewer's comments and acts tonegatetheir claim.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |