postponement

常见例句

He compounded with his creditors for a postponement of payment.
他與債權人達成協議延期付款。
Postponement would have a better chance if the neighbours who have maintained good links with the junta—Thailand and, especially, China—added their weight to calls for a suspension.
如果與緬甸保持較好關系的鄰國——泰國，特別是中國——能夠曏之施加壓力，呼訏暫停公投，那麽推遲公投的可能性會更大些。
This social transformation, which also occurred in America and East Asia, led to a demographic bonus (a bulge of people in work) and to what might be called the postponement of everything.
這一社會性的轉變，同樣發生在美國和東亞，導致了人口統計上的獎勵（工作人口暴漲）以及應該稱爲一切事務的延期。

U.S.officials say the postponement of the election from January to March 7 should not affect the October target.
So the satisfactions of the moment are for Milton deferred here; and it's something like a recognizable process of deferral and postponement that you will see beginning to form themselves at the very center of Milton's poetic imagination.
因此對這一時刻的滿意就是因爲彌爾頓把它推遲到這;,而且就像一個可以察覺的推遲過程,從一開始你就會看到這些推遲是順其自然的,這在彌爾頓的詩歌想象中可以看到。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節選
And for Milton, whose temperament up to this point inclined him obviously to hesitation, to postponement, and to merely the anticipation of profit, the pressure applied by this parable of the unprofitable servant may very well have seemed utterly unbearable.
對於彌爾頓來說，這是性格使然,他讀到這裡會猶豫，會止步不前，會對利益有所期待，這則寓言中毫無收益的僕人,給了他無盡的壓力。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節選

The reason is that the Securities and Exchange Commission may force a postponement of the offering.
FORBES: Groupon IPO May Be Delayed
But Germany's top diplomat in Brussels, Dietrich von Kyaw, refuses even to contemplate a postponement.
ECONOMIST: The EU’s coming wrangle for reforms and spoils