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单词

postpone

读音
poʊˈspoʊn
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词根

* "Post-" 是词前缀,来源于拉丁文,表示“之后”; * "-pone" 来源于拉丁词根"ponere",意味着"放置"; * "Post-""和"-pone" 结合起来,字面意思是"放在之后",即"延后"或"推迟"。

释义

vt. 使……延期;把……放在次要地位;把……放在后面 vi. 延缓,延迟;延缓发作 [ 第三人称单数 postpones 现在分词 postponing 过去式 postponed 过去分词 postponed ]

例句

I, for one, would prefer to postpone the meeting.
主张推迟会期的,我就是一个。
The only practicable alternative is to postpone the meeting.
另外唯一可行的办法就是推迟会期。
It was an unpopular decision to postpone building the new hospital.
延迟兴建新医院的决定是不得人心的。

强化记忆

"Postpone"可以通过“post(邮寄) + pone(音:泡妞)”来记忆, 想象一下,“邮寄泡妞的计划要延期了”这样的场景图,很容易就可以记住这个单词的含义了。"Postpone" 一词首次出现在 15世纪,来源于拉丁词“postponere”。在很多的西方文化中,"postpone" 通常有着稍许消极的内涵,表明因某种情况,事情无法按预定时间进行,需要推迟。

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and you are so busy and you have so many other things to do,you will always tend to postpone and postpone,and eventually it gets too late.
and two, because we are willing to sacrifice immediate gainsin order to postpone --have more gains into the future --
they're skeptical or even afraid.We postpone the online trainings,we don't bother to learn the shortcuts,
I told them that I'd explain later,but we had to postpone the meetingbecause I was going to perform her as the statue came down.
while women decide to look for a joband postpone the creation of a new business.Our hypothesis is that this happens
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