Postpone
[ po'spon ]
第2级
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vt. 使延期，延缓;把…放在次要地位;把…放在后面;
vi. 延缓;延缓发作;
💡 词根助记
post在后面+pon放+e→放到后面→推迟
📝 例句
She decided to postpone the converastion for that evening.
她决定当天晚上把谈话搁一搁。
It won' t hurt to postpone the matter for a few days.
把此事搁置几天并无妨碍。
I have to postpone our appointment.
我要把我们的约会延期。
I shall postpone making a decision till I learn full particulars.
在未获悉详情之前我得从缓作出决定。
It won't hurt to postpone the meeting for a few more days.
会议再推迟几天也无妨。
🌱 联想助记
【记】※ post-邮件,p-拼音“怕”,one-一:邮件怕推迟一天
※ post-邮件,po-拼音“婆”,ne-拼音“呢”:邮件被婆婆放哪呢,看来要延迟送到了
※ post-邮件,po-拼音“婆”,ne-拼音“呢”:这邮件看来要推迟了,婆婆怎么不着急呢
✅ 同义词
🔴 反义词
📖 牛津释义
postpone
v
1 [Tn, Tn.pr, Tg]
~ sth (to sth) arrange sth at a later time; defer sth 使某事物延期; 推迟某事物
The match was postponed to the following Saturday because of bad weather. 比赛因天气不好而延期到下星期六进行.
Let's postpone making adecision until we have more information. 咱们在获取更多情报之後再做决定不迟. Cf 参看 advance 6, cancel 1.
2 (idm 习语) postpone the evil `hour/`day put off until a later time an unpleasant task, etc, that one will eventually have to do 缓做一终须做的厌恶事.
🎯 考研助记
post（在…之后）+pone（放置）= 推迟 网友：yqy 补充：邮递（post）手机（phone）的事情要推迟了，因为没有h啊
🔁 扩展释义
*[pәust'pәun]vt. 延迟, 使延期, 缓办, 搁延vi. 延缓, 延缓发作【化】 延期
🏥 医学释义
推迟，延期，搁置
📖 同为「CET-4」词汇
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Right. Nice meeting you, Yang Mei. Bye.
（你的计划）挺好的。见到你真是太好了，杨梅。再见。
There!
哎呀！
The wooducutter was standing next to a fallen tree, with lots of small pieces of wood in front of him.
伐木工人正站在一棵倒下的树旁，他的前面有很多小片的木头。