rule-out

基本解释

Automatic search for opponent would rule-out players from your blacklist.
自动找对手会排除与坏人棋友的配对。
When sports medicine physicians need another set of eyes to diagnose an elusive condition, like a stress fracture or a neuropathy, medical imaging can help confirm or rule-out a diagnosis.
当运动医学内科医生需要另一套眼睛诊断一种不易捉摸状况时，象压力裂缝或者神经病一样，医学成像能帮助确认或者排除一次诊断。
Potential use as a "rule-out" marker has been suggested, but concerns remain given that it is elevated in other acute chest diseases, including pulmonary embolism and ischemic heart disease.
但需要注意的D-二聚体是在其他急性胸部疾病（如肺动脉栓塞和缺血性心脏病）中也可以升高。

"Some we cannot rule out are the constant discussions of so-called medical marijuana, marijuana legalization, and the downplaying of marijuana harms so prevalent in today's media."
Because we made time and space independently, was we in fact violating the time-out rule?
因为将时间和空间,分开考虑，违背腾时间原则了吗？
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So even if determinism were true of us, that wouldn't rule out our having free will, because you can-- appearances to the contrary notwithstanding-- have both determinism and free will.
所以即使我们真的服从于决定论,那也不能排除我们有自由意志的可能,因为你能,尽管表面看来并非如此,同时遵从决定论和拥有自由意志
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That said, it would be wrong to suggest that the two countries see eye-to-eye on all or even most big issues, or to rule out a dangerous falling-out in the future.
ECONOMIST: America and China

If you rule out a course of action, an idea, or a solution, you decide that it is impossible or unsuitable.
If something rules out a situation, it prevents it from happening or from being possible.