defer

美音：[dɪ'fɜr] 英音：[dɪ'fɜː(r)]

简单释义：

v.推迟；延缓；展期

网络延期；拖延；延迟

变形：

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

完整释义：

1.延期,推迟,延缓,推延通过
2.服从,听从,遵从
3.拖延,迁延,展缓;扣存
4.服从,恭顺,百依百顺,唯命是听;按照
5.尊敬,尊重
6.留,接受
7.回避
8.迁延;因循
9.把(某事)交由(某人)决定
10.【军事】使延期入伍

例句：

My two main creditors agreed to defer payment for a couple of months, but not before I sold my car and most of what I owned to raise money.
我的两个大债主同意，在我卖掉车子和所有东西筹钱之后，推迟几个月支付债务。
I shall defer to your advice , which has always been helpful .
我将遵从你的建议，它总是很有帮助。
As an appeals-court judge, she was always obliged to defer to precedents set by the Supreme Court.
作为一位上诉法院法官，她过去总是不得不遵循最高法院以前的判例。
Creating this sort of documentation becomes more cumbersome the longer you defer it.
越往后拖延，创建这类文档就会变得越麻烦。
But it sent a signal that you didn't have to be afraid of the machine; you could touch it and it would defer to you.
但这能散发一种信号，告诉你不必害怕这台机器；你能触摸它，它会听你的号令行事。
If your dog is barking out of fear of people, first he must learn to be obedient, defer to you for his behavior cues, and relax.
如果你的狗叫声是出于恐惧的人，他首先必须学会听话，请你为他的行为线索，然后放松。
CAI enables you to defer the time consuming parts of the deletion to a date when the system load is not on a high level.
CAI允许您将消耗时间的删除部分延迟到系统负载不是很高的时候。
It would be too simplistic to put all of this down to a cultural propensity to defer to bullying corporate bosses.
如果把这一切归结为一种听命于仗势欺人的公司老板的文化习性，那么就会过于简单了。

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