| 释义 |
self-ˈcancelling, ppl. a.
[self- 1 f, 4.]
That cancels itself; that negate each other.
1. In technical use: designed to stop working automatically when no longer required; applied esp. to traffic indicators of motor vehicles.
1935[see dipper 8]. 1945Autocar Handbk. (Autocar Techn. Staff) (ed. 18) x. 196 Some form of ‘self-cancelling’ arrangement is..fitted, to avoid drivers unknowingly going along with an indicator extended. 1960News Chron. 6 May 8/8 They have omitted..to make the traffic indicators self-cancelling. 1963Times 15 Jan. 12/1 By flicking in the self-cancelling overdrive in third and top the motorway cruising speed went up to about 80. 1972Daily Tel. 12 July 10/5 Not only is the stalk on the column very flimsy and mounted on the wrong side..but the indicators are not self-cancelling.
2. gen.
1943Mind LII. 295 It has been made a self-cancelling expression like the expression ‘ride a motor cycle’ as used by someone who is determined to use ‘ride’ only where what you ride is something living. 1965Spectator 15 Jan. 60/1 The concept of fighting for export orders has become largely self-cancelling. |