to postpone

推迟
常用释义
推迟;延期

例句

1·I, for one, would prefer to postpone the meeting.

主张推迟会期的,我就是一个。

—— 《牛津词典》

2·We'll have to postpone the meeting until next week.

我们将不得不把会议推迟到下周举行。

—— 《牛津词典》

3·The only practicable alternative is to postpone the meeting.

另外唯一可行的办法就是推迟会期。

—— 《牛津词典》

4·He decided to postpone the expedition until the following day.

他决定将探险活动推迟到第二天。

—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·It is totally out of the question to postpone the midnight deadline.

延迟午夜的最后期限是根本不可能的。

—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

6·The sports meeting was supposed to take place on Tuesday, but we've had to postpone it because of the weather.

运动会本应该在周二召开的,但因为天气原因,我们不得不将它推迟了。

7·Facing a national blood shortage, physicians in Atlanta, Pittsburgh, New York, Baltimore and Washington moved to postpone nonemergency surgeries.

面对全国性血液供应不足的情况,亚特兰大、匹兹堡、纽约、巴尔的摩和华盛顿的医生都推迟了非紧急手术的时间。

8·Data show that economic downturns tend to postpone marriage because the parties cannot afford to establish a family or are concerned about rainy days ahead.

数据显示,经济低迷往往会推迟婚姻,因为双方负担不起组建家庭的费用,或者担心未来会有不测。

9·It was an unpopular decision to postpone building the new hospital.

延迟兴建新医院的决定是不得人心的。

—— 《牛津词典》

10·Jeff: We had to postpone it.

杰夫:我们不得不推迟举行。

同义词

推迟;延期