| 词汇 | postponed |
| 释义 | postponed past simple and past participle ofpostpone postpone verb[ T ] uk /pəʊstˈpəʊn//pəstˈpəʊn/ us /poʊstˈpoʊn/ B1 to delay an event and plan or decide that it should happen at a later date or time: 推迟，延缓，使延期 They decided to postpone their holiday until next year.他们决定将假期推迟到来年。 [ + -ing verb ]We've had to postpone going to France because the children are ill.因为孩子们生病了，我们不得不推迟去法国的行程。 Synonyms defer put something off Opposite bring something forwardmainly UK Compare proroguespecialized shelve to cancel something cancelSorry, I have to cancel our plans tonight. call offThe game has been called off because of the weather. offThe meeting's off because James is ill. scrapWe've scrapped our plans for a trip to France. suspendThe ferry service has been suspended for the day because of bad weather. postponeWe've postponed the wedding until next year. The negotiations have been postponed indefinitely. I was really angry when she asked me to postpone my trip to help her move house. There's no point postponing the event just because the weather forecast is bad. We decided to postpone the party until my parents had returned from America. The exams have been postponed until next month. Delaying and wasting time ado busywork buy timeidiom carry something over dally gridlock hold up inefficiency inefficiently kept kick pigeonhole push raincheck retard retardation set someone back (something) shelve spin stall You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Cancelling and interrupting Related wordpostponement Examples of postponedpostponed In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. At this point, these facts are queried with ground queries only: queries with variables are postponed until also ground rules have been shown. Potential crises will be postponed or mitigated as a result. Rather than rejecting responsible cabinets and a stronger central government role, these reform edicts postponed them to a later time. Using survey data, they show that one-quarter of older workers say they postponed retirement due to equity market losses. Classes often start late and are shorter than the scheduled hours, and quite frequently, because their teachers are otherwise occupied, classes are postponed or cancelled. Since the defender receives utility from possession of the contested asset he sees any compromise as a loss that is lower if postponed. Postponed at the last minute, its belated debut four years later gave the impression that most of the participants had moved on. For a time, the day of reckoning could be postponed through lower savings rates and higher levels of debt. In 1933 the executive appears not to have met for six months and postponed a mission owing to lack of enthusiasm. In the end, the economic policies only postponed the economic depression that occurred with the stabilisation of the mark in 1923-24. Thus, a commitment to a specific value of any design attribute is postponed until the last possible moment. Respondents were asked to indicate how long the project would be postponed and what sources of finance they were considering to close the financing 'gap'. Details were left to others to take care of, or better yet, postponed till later. The lifting of the payoff ban, which has had been originally scheduled to take place in 2001, has been postponed by one year. In particular, respondents were asked if the project had been abandoned (question 8), postponed (question 9), or financed using other sources (question 10). These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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