| 词汇 | cancel |
| 词源 | cancel. Medieval scribes crossed out errors on parchment by drawing lines obliquely across the words. They called such criss-crosses cancelli, “lattices,” because they resembled such structures, and the word cancelli for such cross-outs eventually gave us the English cancel. |
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