| 词汇 | postponing |
| 释义 | postponing present 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 postponingpostponing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. In such cases, a cautious tokenizer produces alternative segmentations postponing the decision to a later processing stage. Medical evidence indicates that many human beings are capable of postponing death for important cultural occasions. By postponing the moment of death one allows more severe states of chronic disease to appear. Postponing for the moment the issue of owner occupation, the rising property market had some important direct effects on slum clearance. Individuals respond to the uncertainty by reducing the risk associated with investment, either by reducing the level of investment or postponing the investment. That is, the specification accommodates any option value associated with postponing investment. He or she focuses on cer tain problems in succession, postponing any decisions concerning other elements of the design. As we will discuss below, this could be a critical step towards postponing human ageing. However, opposing thoughts that nothing much would be left of her former life made her sad, and she kept postponing her plans to go back. However, some had decided to take the risk of continuing as they were, effectively postponing decision-making. Either by reducing the pension level or by postponing the retirement age. These attachments were not infrequently given as the reason for postponing or forsaking plans to emigrate. In contrast, increases in the rate of interest will reduce the rate of increase of fishing effort by reducing the relative attraction of postponing fishing. The technical question, then, is how can we extend the fruits of this laboratory research to postponing ageing in humans. For example, normative openness can result from postponing decisions about what should constitute a norm. 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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