[译] 他们将输队淘汰出竞赛。
[误] They excluded the losing team from the competition.

[正] They eliminated the losing team from the competition.
[注] eliminate 和 exclude 均有“拒绝进入”的意思。eliminate 通常指将原已进入组织的或已入围的人或物“清除”或“淘汰”出去。又如: Four minor candidates were eliminated in the first round. 第一轮四个获少数票的候选人被剔除出去了。exclude 通常指拒绝想进去的人或物进去。例如: All those under twenty years of age were excluded from the club. 年龄不到二十岁的人是不能进这个俱乐部的。