exclude

1. V-T If you exclude someone from a place or activity, you prevent them from entering it or taking part in it. 拒 (某人) 于 (某地、活動) 之外; 不包括

Many of the youngsters feel excluded. 很多年輕人感覺受排擠。

2. V-T If you exclude something that has some connection with what you are doing, you deliberately do not use it or consider it. 故意不用; 故意不考慮

In some schools, Christmas carols are being modified to exclude any reference to Christ. 在有些學校，圣誕頌歌正在被修改以去掉任何涉及基督的內(nèi)容。

3. V-T To exclude a possibility means to decide or prove that it is wrong and not worth considering. 排除 (某種可能性)[usu with brd-neg]

I cannot entirely exclude the possibility that some form of pressure was applied to the neck. 我不能完全排除有些壓力作用到了頸部的可能性。

4. V-T To exclude something such as the sun's rays or harmful germs means to prevent them physically from reaching or entering a particular place. 阻擋

This was intended to exclude the direct rays of the sun. 這是用來阻擋太陽直射光線的。