The noun is pronounced /'?nv?l?d/. The adjective is pronounced /?n'v?l?d/ and is hyphenated in|val|id. 名詞讀作 /'?nv?l?d/。形容詞讀作 /?n'v?l?d/，分音節為in|val|id。
1. 病人;病弱者;傷殘者 An invalid is someone who needs to be cared for because they have an illness or disability.
e.g. I hate being treated as an invalid. 我討厭被人當作傷病號對待。
2. 無(wú)效的;作廢的 If an action, procedure, or document is invalid, it cannot be accepted, because it breaks the law or some official rule.
e.g. The trial was stopped and the results declared invalid... 審判被中止,判決結果被宣布無(wú)效。 e.g. We cannot accept liability if you are refused entry because of invalid documents. 如果你因證件無(wú)效被拒入內,我們不承擔責任。
invalidity ...the invalidity of the marriage ceremony. 結婚儀式無(wú)效
3. (論據、結論)站不住腳的,錯誤的 An invalid argument or conclusion is wrong because it is based on a mistake.
e.g. We think that those arguments are rendered invalid by the hard facts on the ground. 我們認為那些論點(diǎn)當場(chǎng)即被確鑿的事實(shí)駁倒了。
invalid英英釋義
noun
1. someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury
Synonym: shut-in
invalid的反義詞
verb
1. injure permanently
e.g. He was disabled in a car accident
Synonym: disableincapacitatehandicap
2. force to retire, remove from active duty, as of firemen
adj
1. no longer valid
e.g. the license is invalid
2. having no cogency or legal force
e.g. invalid reasoning an invalid driver's license