defer

/di'fә:/

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📖 中文释义

  1. vi. 推迟, 延期, 听从
  2. vt. 使推迟, 使延期

🔗 释义中的汉语词

🧩 词形变化

过去分词 deferred现在分词 deferring过去式 deferred第三人称单数 defers

💬 双语例句

  1. “What happens to a dream deferred?

    “延迟的梦想发生了什么?

  2. In addition, infrastructure investment cannot be deferred forever. A new reckoning is warranted, one that accounts for the full costs of underinvestment in terms of foregone employment and growth.

    此外,基础设施投资不可能永远推迟。 新的算计迟早会降临,考虑就业和增长损失等投资不足的全面成本。

🔵 同义词

🔗 常用搭配

defer harddefer hard choicescompelled to defercontinues to deferreadiness to defer
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
  1. v hold back to a later time
  2. v yield to another's wish or opinion