Spectral: A Threat Beyond Bullets

“write off as” 在英文裡是什麼意思？

在這段科幻片段裡，一名士兵解釋道：「At first, our field tech wrote it off as interference.」他的意思是，團隊認定那些奇怪的讀數不重要而選擇忽略，後來才發現自己錯了。To write something off as X 的意思是把某件事當作 X 而不予理會，認定它不值得再花心思。而這個判斷往往到頭來是錯的。

在商業和日常對話中很常聽到這個用法：「Don’t write off his idea just because it sounds strange,」或者「She wrote the noise off as the neighbors, but it was actually a leak.」「Write off」另有一個跟財務有關的意思（認列呆帳），但「write off as [something]」一律跟否定或誤判有關，跟錢無關。