"cancel out" in Chinese (Simplified)

• 抵消

Definition

通过产生相反的效果来抵消或平衡某事的影响；当两件事互相使彼此无效时。

Usage Notes (Chinese (Simplified))

多用于口语或中性语境，常指两个相对作用相互抵消。可用于物理、数学、比喻等情境。不能用来表示取消活动或会议，表达此意时应使用“cancel”本身。

Examples

The vitamin and the medicine cancel out each other's effects.

维生素和药物的效果会**相互抵消**。

Adding sugar may cancel out the health benefits of tea.

加糖可能会**抵消**茶的健康益处。

The benefits of waking up early can easily cancel out if you don't get enough sleep.

如果你睡眠不足，早起的好处很容易被**抵消**。

Sometimes the good and bad news just cancel out; I end up feeling nothing.

有时候好消息和坏消息会**互相抵消**，结果我什么也没感觉。

The two noises cancel out each other.

这两种噪音互相**抵消**。

Those two colors just cancel each other out when mixed together—they turn gray.

这两种颜色混在一起时会**互相抵消**，变成灰色。