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单词 self-cancelling
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self-cancelling

adjective
1Having elements which contradict or negate one another: some of the speculation had been self-cancelling, with newspapers predicting that the government would take quite opposite courses...
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • This extraordinary general election has resulted in the extraordinary self-cancelling outcome of not one lame duck leader but two.
2(Of a mechanical device) designed to stop working automatically when no longer required.
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