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单词 self-cancelling
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Definition of self-cancelling in English:

self-cancelling

(US self-canceling)
adjective
  • 1Having elements which contradict or negate one another.

    自相矛盾的;自动抵消的

    some of the speculation had been self-cancelling, with newspapers predicting that the government would take quite opposite courses

    报纸预测政府会采取截然相反的路线,某些猜测自相矛盾。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This extraordinary general election has resulted in the extraordinary self-cancelling outcome of not one lame duck leader but two.
    • To start with, the claim that it is true that there is no truth is itself self-cancelling.
    • You might say that, as with the declaration about marriage quoted earlier, Powell's way of declaring is so circumspect or humorously self-cancelling that something original results.
    • Switching from one tendency to the other will result in a self-cancelling effect in a given period of effort.
    • Entertaining stuff, but I had the uncomfortable feeling that the stunts were not so much self-defeating as self-cancelling, leaving the corporate structure undamaged in each case.
    • There's a sense of self-cancelling motion, of action and reaction distilled into one form.
    • The political state of the nation is locked into a self-cancelling dynamic.
  • 2(of a mechanical device) designed to stop working automatically when no longer required.

    (机械设备)自动停止的;自停的

Definition of self-canceling in US English:

self-canceling

(British self-cancelling)
adjective
  • 1Having elements which contradict or negate one another.

    自相矛盾的;自动抵消的

    some of the speculation had been self-canceling, with newspapers predicting that the government would take quite opposite courses

    报纸预测政府会采取截然相反的路线,某些猜测自相矛盾。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This extraordinary general election has resulted in the extraordinary self-cancelling outcome of not one lame duck leader but two.
    • Switching from one tendency to the other will result in a self-cancelling effect in a given period of effort.
    • To start with, the claim that it is true that there is no truth is itself self-cancelling.
    • You might say that, as with the declaration about marriage quoted earlier, Powell's way of declaring is so circumspect or humorously self-cancelling that something original results.
    • There's a sense of self-cancelling motion, of action and reaction distilled into one form.
    • The political state of the nation is locked into a self-cancelling dynamic.
    • Entertaining stuff, but I had the uncomfortable feeling that the stunts were not so much self-defeating as self-cancelling, leaving the corporate structure undamaged in each case.
  • 2(of a mechanical device) designed to stop working automatically when no longer required.

    (机械设备)自动停止的;自停的

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