Your composition will read better if you cross out these worn-out figures of speech.如果去掉这些陈腐的比喻，你的作文读起来就要好一些。Just cross out the old address.把旧地址划掉即可。Two sentences were crossed out.两句话被删掉了。She crossed out the names of people who had left.她把离开了的人的姓名都划掉了。I crossed out the word.我勾掉了这个单词。