phrasal verbphr vWRONG/INCORRECTto draw a line or lines through something you have written or drawn, usually because it is wrong 划掉,删去〔通常为错误的内容〕
I crossed out ‘Miss’ and wrote ‘Ms’.
我把“小姐”划掉,改成“女士”。
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cross out• He began to write about one such P'daytaism, and then crossed it out.• Or would have appeared if you had not crossed it out.• The result was a white cross that stood out among the familiarneonlogos of airlines and oil companies.• Or shall I cross that out and say it is sad?• And Cross soon careered out of control, relying for information on the localInternationalMonetaryFundoffice.• He made a hastysign of the cross and rushed out of the church.• RedCross workers handed outorangejuice to children in the 35Cheat.• You write text, you doodle, you cross things out... quite literally a tabula rasa.