defer/adjourn/delay/postpone/put off.导航词义：推迟

1. defer:v. 推迟，延期.较正式用词，多指故意拖延。

The students would like to defer their discussion until next Monday afternoon.

学生们想把讨论会推迟到下星期一下午进行。

The bank agreed to defer their payments for four months.

银行同意他们延期4个月付款。

Hand in your proposal as soon as possible - you have deferred too long.

尽快提交你的议案——你拖延得太久了。

2. adjourn:v. 休（会），休（庭），延期.指会议休会、法庭休庭或审判延期。

The meeting is adjourned for an unknown reason.

会议莫名其妙地休会了。

It was almost 10 o'clock when the court adjourned.

法庭休庭的时候差不多已经10点了。

The trial will be adjourned until June.

审判将推迟到6月。

3. delay:v. （使）推迟，耽搁.多指由于外在原因而推迟或耽误，有时也指有意推迟。

The rain delayed the opening ceremony for one hour.

大雨使开幕式延迟了1个小时。

The board decided to delay their vacation until next week.

董事会决定把休假推迟到下周。

Don't delay - homework right now!

别拖了，现在就写作业！

4. postpone:v. 延迟，延缓.多指有计划地延期，通常会明确延期到何时。

They planned to postpone their trip until the spring.

他们打算把旅行推迟到春天。

Nokia has postponed the release of its new product.

诺基亚已经推迟了新产品的发布。

5. put off:phr.v. 推迟，延期.尤指因出现问题或不想现在做某事而推迟，作此义解时常可与 delay 换用。

The sports meeting has been put off/delayed until tomorrow due to bad weather.

由于天气恶劣，运动会推迟到明天举行。

The meeting has been put off/delayed until next week so that more people can attend.

为了使更多的人可以参加，此次会议已推迟到下周。

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1·Can you delay him in some way?

你能用什么办法耽搁他一下吗？《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·They were impatient at the delay.

他们对拖延不耐烦了。《牛津词典》

3·Any delay would be fatal.

任何延误都可能导致失败。《牛津词典》

4·We would like to apologize for the delay.

我们愿对延迟表示歉意。《牛津词典》

5·The passengers grew angry about the delay.

延误使乘客气愤起来。《牛津词典》

6·He is anxious that there should be no delay.

他急切希望不会有任何延误。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

7·Logistical problems may be causing the delay.

组织上的一些问题可能正在造成延误。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

8·Any delay will prejudice the child's welfare.

任何延误都会损及这个孩子的身心健康。《牛津词典》

9·Flights are subject to delay because of the fog.

由于有雾，航班可能延误。《牛津词典》

10·The delay is due simply to the volume of traffic.

延误完全是因为交通拥挤。《牛津词典》

延迟

1·We would like to apologize for the delay.

我们愿对延迟表示歉意。《牛津词典》

2·He hates delay and procrastination in all its forms.

他厌恶各种形式的延迟和耽搁。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·A host of problems may delay the opening of the new bridge.

一大堆问题也许会延迟新建桥梁的开通。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·For a few events, however, the delay was long even at the epicenter.

然而，对于一些事件，即使在震中，延迟的时间也很长。

5·That's why there's most often a delay associated with muscle soreness.

那就是为什么肌肉酸痛时常延迟。

延误

1·Any delay would be fatal.

任何延误都可能导致失败。《牛津词典》

2·He is anxious that there should be no delay.

他急切希望不会有任何延误。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·Logistical problems may be causing the delay.

组织上的一些问题可能正在造成延误。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·Any delay will prejudice the child's welfare.

任何延误都会损及这个孩子的身心健康。《牛津词典》

5·Flights are subject to delay because of the fog.

由于有雾，航班可能延误。《牛津词典》

推迟

1·The decision to delay the launch stems from unfavourable weather conditions.

推迟发射的决定源于不利的天气情况。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·The judge will delay his verdict until he receives medical reports on the offender.

法官将推迟判决，直到收到有关违法者的医疗报告。《牛津词典》

3·We have to delay classes.

我们不得不推迟上课。

4·The current low fossil fuel price environment will thus certainly delay the energy transition from fossil fuel to clean energy sources.

因此，当前化石燃料价格较低的环境必然会推迟从化石燃料向清洁能源转型的过程。

5·The 11:20 train to Zhengzhou from Platform 8 will be subject to a fifteen minute delay.

11：20从8号站台开往郑州的列车将会推迟15分钟。

拖延

1·They were impatient at the delay.

他们对拖延不耐烦了。《牛津词典》

2·Fortunately the short delay gave him time to gather himself.

幸运的是，这短暂的拖延给了他喘息的时间。《牛津词典》

3·He is determined to delay no more.

他下决心不再拖延。《新英汉大辞典》

4·He wanted to do one thing at a time, Meg says, explaining her son's delay.

“他想一次做一件事。”梅格说，解释她儿子的拖延。

5·Their exchange value depended not on their silver content, but on the fact that they could be exchanged at every instant, without delay and without cost, at their full face value against gold.

它们的交换价值并不取决于他们的含银量，而事实上是按其全部面值兑换黄金，而这种兑换又是可以在任何时刻无拖延、无成本地进行。

延时

1·The variations in eye movement and operation delay were studied during the fixation training of two macaca mulatta.

研究了两只猕猴在注视过程中，眼球运动和操作延时的变化。

2·With this delay, I can precisely control at what point in the burst the photo is captured.

利用这个延时，我能够精确地控制早爆炸瞬间的那个时间点拍下照片。

3·The delay may only be a few seconds, but in a user's mind, it can count as one strike against your application.

这个延时虽然只有几秒钟，但在用户的印象中，这无疑是对该应用程序的一次打击。

4·This results in a slight delay, and can cause problems.

这样就会有些延时 ，而且还会产生问题。

5·The delay in delivering the messages depends upon the size of the mail message and the activity on the server.

消息传递的延时取决于邮件消息的大小和服务器上的活动。

延缓

1·This suggests the possibility that lifestyle factors might help prevent or delay this type of decline.

这表明生活方式因素可能会有助于预防或延缓这种衰退。

2·Those findings suggest that caloric restriction could delay ageing and increase longevity in humans, too.

这些发现表明，限制热量摄入也可以延缓衰老，延长人类寿命。

3·Propping up prices will delay the inevitable correction, but it will not stop it.

力挺价格会延缓这一必然的纠偏过程，但是不会使它停止。

4·They have a remarkable ability to live through, delay or entirely escape a host of diseases that kill off most of their peers.

他们具有非凡的能力能挺过、延缓或全然避免罹患夺走他们同龄人中大部分人性命的许多疾病。

5·It appears that if people start exercising their memory may improve and if you continue to exercise, that might delay, or offset, the age-related decline in memory, he explains.

他解释说：“它显示出如果人们开始锻炼，他们的记忆就可以改善。如果你继续锻炼，随着年老而发生的记忆力衰退便可以延缓或者不出现。”

时延

1·A routing path selected algorithm based on the minimization product of packet delay and packet energy consumption is proposed.

提出了一种基于平均分组时延与分组能量消耗乘积最小的路由路径选择算法。

2·This paper presents a computer program for delay equalizer automatic design.

本文介绍了一种时延均衡器的机助设计程序。

3·Compared with the traditional lookup table adaptive filter, the new configuration can synthesize a signal response with a long time delay and has the characteristic of fast convergence speed.

这种新的结构与传统的查表结构自适应滤波器相比，具有复盖较长时延的信号响应和收敛速度快的特点。

4·Troposphere delay error could be accurately determined using WVR.

使用WVR能精确测定对流层时延误差。

5·Finally, based on the analyses above, the authors propose a new scheme, which has the advantages of strong security, high efficiency, and small time delay over the traditional scheme.

最后，在此基础上提出一种新的方案，这种方案相对传统方案来说，具有安全性强、效率高和时延小的特性。

耽搁

1·Can you delay him in some way?

你能用什么办法耽搁他一下吗？《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·They claimed that such a delay wouldn't hurt anyone.

他们声称这样的耽搁不会伤害任何人。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·The matter allows of no delay.

此事不容耽搁。《新英汉大辞典》

4·I hope you're not too put out with me for the delay.

我希望你不要因为我的耽搁而对我发脾气。

5·The delay caused great inconvenience.

这一耽搁造成很大不便。

耽误

1·It's not just that the middles of fiction involve these processes of delay.

不仅仅是小说的中间部分牵涉到这些耽误的过程。

2·Don't blame me for the delay.

别责备我耽误了。

3·So far, Orion and the boosters are the furthest along in their production cycles, since every day that they delay extends the five-year period when Americans have no independent access to space.

到目前为止，“猎户座”和推进器是在实际生产环节走的最远的，因为他们耽误的每一天都会把美国已经丧失了太空霸权的五年时间延长一天。

4·I received the last you sent on by the merest chance, and after considerable delay through being inland; or I might have come sooner.

你上次转给我的信，在巴西的内地转来转去，耽误了许久，最后完全是碰巧收到的，不然我会回来得更早些。

5·It is a few hours old, so if any information is out of date, blame me for the delay in getting it published.

这已经过去了好几个小时，因此如果这些信息来得不够及时，都怪我耽误了出版。

(1)without delay立即；毫不迟延地

(1)time delay延时，延迟

(1)delay time延迟时间，推迟时间

(1)transmission delay[计]传输延迟

(1)long delay长时延迟；长时间的推迟

(1)group delay群延迟