| 单词 | defer |
| 释义 | de·fer I. transitive verb 1. < God … will not long defer to vindicate … His name — John Milton > as a. < deferred payment of a debt > < deferred talking with the boy > b. 2. obsolete intransitive verb < able to defer and temporize at leisure — J.A.Symonds > Synonyms: < reluctantly, he made up his mind to defer the more exacting examinations until another time — A.J.Cronin > < not more than three or four men could be found to continue the work, and its completion was long deferred — American Guide Series: Michigan > postpone indicates a deferring, often until some set future time, although to postpone indefinitely means to cancel < I think that we had better postpone our look round the church until after lunch — Compton Mackenzie > < let us postpone a final evaluation of Valla's treatise until after we have considered the handling of the selfsame problem by the English scholastic, Reginald Pecock — G.C.Sellery > intermit suggests halting or delaying for a relatively short interval, usually with the implication of a quick resumption < seven centuries of hardly intermitted war created the Spanish people and they, the most medieval people in western Europe, created the Kingdom of Spain — Bernard DeVoto > suspend indicates a stopping or rendering inoperative for a time, usually for a reason explicit or implicit in the context < newspaper publication suspended during a strike > < shall I suspend final decision until I have further evidence? — M.R.Cohen > < had his driving license suspended for a month. Too many tickets — Raymond Chandler > stay suggests stopping activity or progress by or as if by interposing some obstacle < an order staying the execution > < in September the injunction was stayed and on October 5 set aside by the Supreme Court — Current Biography > < believing that by remaining neutral she could stay the forces of war — E.M.Coulter > II. transitive verb 1. < he could defer his job to no one … if he did judge wrong, carnage on the carrier deck could be fearful — J.A.Michener > < the court defers its own opinion to that of congress — C.P.Curtis > 2. intransitive verb < he assumed authority … everybody deferred to him — Ellen Glasgow > Synonyms: see yield |
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