词汇 | negated |
释义 | negated past simple and past participle ofnegate negate verb[ T ] formaluk /nɪˈɡeɪt/ us /nɪˈɡeɪt/ to cause something to have no effect: 使无效,取消 The increase in our profits has been negated by the rising costs of running the business.我们的盈利增长被日益增加的经营成本所抵消。 Useless and futile adrift aimless aimlessly aimlessness airy-fairy fruitless fruitlessly fruitlessness futile futilely negate negation no goodidiom non-viable nugatory unpractical unrealistic unrealistically unseriousness until you are blue in the faceidiom Related wordnegation 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 with any, 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 of think, 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: … Examples of negatednegated In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. After 1000 ms, the affirmative assertions continued to facilitate affirmative-related terms, but the negated assertions no longer did so. Their word order in negated subordinate clauses is therefore difficult to interpret. Rights of women are totally negated which goes against the concept of equity and justice. Experiment 2 examined whether children preferred antipodal or orthogonal representations for negated terms from pairs of directional opposites. The pictures were based on 12 negated statements : 5 antipodal/ correct and 5 orthogonal/correct and 2 incorrect options. As with negated objects, this lexical variety argues against treating the phenomena purely in terms of formulaic language. Note that, in order to minimize the sports we need to do, preferences are expressed on the negated facts. We must rename the negated atom in the query in the same manner. Next, in any remaining clause, eliminate all negated atoms. There was concern that the benefits of thiazides in the treatment of hypertension could be negated by their tendency to cause hypokalaemia. There were none in the period up to 1460 when preposed negated objects were plentiful. The negated gradient of the summation of these potentials is treated as an artificial force applied to the robot in order to control its motion. An example that establishes the negated implication (e) has been given previously. The same was true for a small majority of canonical negated object nouns. The structure of the inference rules is the same, but the conditions are negated in some sense. 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. |
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