delay的例句

1. 阻滞，使迟到
2. 推迟，延迟，延缓，使拖延，使延期
3. 耽搁，耽误，延迟，延误，晚点；逗留

1. 耽搁，耽误，延迟，拖延，延误，延时，推迟
2. 耽搁的时间，延迟的时间，延误期
3. 磨蹭，犹豫
4. 被耽搁的事件
5. 延迟器
6. 【体】延迟动作，假动作

1. time during which some action is awaited;

   "instant replay caused too long a delay"
   "he ordered a hold in the action"
   

2. the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time

1. cause to be slowed down or delayed;

   "Traffic was delayed by the bad weather"
   "she delayed the work that she didn't want to perform"
   

2. act later than planned, scheduled, or required;

   "Don't delay your application to graduate school or else it won't be considered"
   

3. stop or halt;

   "Please stay the bloodshed!"
   

4. slow the growth or development of;

   "The brain damage will retard the child's language development"
   

1.使延期;使延迟;推迟
If youdelay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.

e.g. For sentimental reasons I wanted todelay my departure until June...
因为感情方面的原因，我想把离开的日期延迟至6月。
e.g. They had delayed having children, for the usual reason, to establish their careers...
为了那个通常的原因——创立自己的事业，他们推迟了要孩子。

2.使延误;使耽搁
Todelay someone or something means to make them late or to slow them down.

delay的近义词

e.g. Can youdelay him in some way?...
你能想办法拖住他一会儿吗？
e.g. Various setbacks and problems delayed production...
各种各样的挫折和问题耽搁了生产进度。

3.（故意）拖延，磨蹭
If youdelay, you deliberately take longer than necessary to do something.

e.g. If he delayed any longer, the sun would be up.
如果他再拖延，太阳就要出来了。

4.延期;延迟;推迟
If there is adelay, something does not happen until later than planned or expected.

e.g. They claimed that such adelay wouldn't hurt anyone...
他们声称这样的延期对谁都不会造成损害。
e.g. Although the tests have caused somedelay, flights should be back to normal this morning.
虽然检测造成了一定的延迟，不过今天早上航班就应该能恢复正常了。

5.延误;耽搁
Delay is a failure to do something immediately or in the required or usual time.

e.g. There is no time left fordelay...
已经没有时间再耽误了。
e.g. We'll send you a quote withoutdelay.
我们会立刻送一份报价给你。

delay for (v.+prep.)

耽搁…时间 stop over a time
delay for some time

〔说明〕 介词for有时可省略。

Disease prevention is like putting out a fire.We can't delay for one minute.

防病如灭火,一分一秒也不能耽误。

He delayed for a long time before accepting my offer.

他拖延了好久才接受我的建议。

She delayed a few hours in order to see me.

她为了能见到我,拖延了几个小时。

delay sb/sth for some time

〔说明〕 介词for通常不省略。

You have delayed me for three hours.

你已经耽搁了我3小时。

The accident delayed the train for two hours.

事故使火车耽搁了两小时。

• For who would bear..the law's delay.

  出自：Hamlet,Shakespeare

• What the hell's all this delay for, Mr Hornblower? D'you want us to miss the tide?

  出自：C. S. Forester

• Th' unprofitable moments..That..still delay Life's instant business to a future day.

  出自：Pope

• As the tender ash delays To clothe herself, when all the woods are green.

  出自：Tennyson

• Mozart had works complete in his head, and delayed writing them down until the last possible minute.

  出自：A. C. Boult

• ☆ 13世纪晚期进入英语，直接源自古法语的delaier：de(离开）+laier(让），意为让……离开；最初源自古典拉丁语的laxare，意为解散，放松。