postponement

常见例句

He compounded with his creditors for a postponement of payment.
他与债权人达成协议延期付款。
Postponement would have a better chance if the neighbours who have maintained good links with the junta—Thailand and, especially, China—added their weight to calls for a suspension.
如果与缅甸保持较好关系的邻国——泰国，特别是中国——能够向之施加压力，呼吁暂停公投，那么推迟公投的可能性会更大些。
This social transformation, which also occurred in America and East Asia, led to a demographic bonus (a bulge of people in work) and to what might be called the postponement of everything.
这一社会性的转变，同样发生在美国和东亚，导致了人口统计上的奖励（工作人口暴涨）以及应该称为一切事务的延期。

U.S.officials say the postponement of the election from January to March 7 should not affect the October target.
So the satisfactions of the moment are for Milton deferred here; and it's something like a recognizable process of deferral and postponement that you will see beginning to form themselves at the very center of Milton's poetic imagination.
因此对这一时刻的满意就是因为弥尔顿把它推迟到这;,而且就像一个可以察觉的推迟过程,从一开始你就会看到这些推迟是顺其自然的,这在弥尔顿的诗歌想象中可以看到。
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And for Milton, whose temperament up to this point inclined him obviously to hesitation, to postponement, and to merely the anticipation of profit, the pressure applied by this parable of the unprofitable servant may very well have seemed utterly unbearable.
对于弥尔顿来说，这是性格使然,他读到这里会犹豫，会止步不前，会对利益有所期待，这则寓言中毫无收益的仆人,给了他无尽的压力。
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The reason is that the Securities and Exchange Commission may force a postponement of the offering.
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But Germany's top diplomat in Brussels, Dietrich von Kyaw, refuses even to contemplate a postponement.
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