| 词组 | delay |
| 释义 | delay ◊ 'delay' If you delay doing something, you do it at a later time. The government delayed granting passports to them until a week before their departure. Try and persuade them to delay some of the changes. If a plane, train, ship, or bus is delayed, it is prevented from leaving or arriving on time. The coach was delayed for about five hours. The flight has been delayed one hour, due to weather conditions. ◊ 'cancel' and 'postpone' Cancel and postpone are used to talk about events that have been arranged in advance. To cancel an event means to decide officially that it will not take place. The performances were cancelled because the leading man was ill. The powerboat championships at Poole were cancelled yesterday because of poor weather. To postpone an event means to arrange for it to take place at a later time than was originally planned. The crew did not know that the invasion had been postponed. Football games had to be postponed for a couple of days. |
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