defer/adjourn/delay/postpone/put off.导航词义：推迟

1. defer:v. 推迟，延期.较正式用词，多指故意拖延。

The students would like to defer their discussion until next Monday afternoon.

学生们想把讨论会推迟到下星期一下午进行。

The bank agreed to defer their payments for four months.

银行同意他们延期4个月付款。

Hand in your proposal as soon as possible - you have deferred too long.

尽快提交你的议案——你拖延得太久了。

2. adjourn:v. 休（会），休（庭），延期.指会议休会、法庭休庭或审判延期。

The meeting is adjourned for an unknown reason.

会议莫名其妙地休会了。

It was almost 10 o'clock when the court adjourned.

法庭休庭的时候差不多已经10点了。

The trial will be adjourned until June.

审判将推迟到6月。

3. delay:v. （使）推迟，耽搁.多指由于外在原因而推迟或耽误，有时也指有意推迟。

The rain delayed the opening ceremony for one hour.

大雨使开幕式延迟了1个小时。

The board decided to delay their vacation until next week.

董事会决定把休假推迟到下周。

Don't delay - homework right now!

别拖了，现在就写作业！

4. postpone:v. 延迟，延缓.多指有计划地延期，通常会明确延期到何时。

They planned to postpone their trip until the spring.

他们打算把旅行推迟到春天。

Nokia has postponed the release of its new product.

诺基亚已经推迟了新产品的发布。

5. put off:phr.v. 推迟，延期.尤指因出现问题或不想现在做某事而推迟，作此义解时常可与 delay 换用。

The sports meeting has been put off/delayed until tomorrow due to bad weather.

由于天气恶劣，运动会推迟到明天举行。

The meeting has been put off/delayed until next week so that more people can attend.

为了使更多的人可以参加，此次会议已推迟到下周。

全部

1·I, for one, would prefer to postpone the meeting.

主张推迟会期的，我就是一个。《牛津词典》

2·The only practicable alternative is to postpone the meeting.

另外唯一可行的办法就是推迟会期。《牛津词典》

3·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。《牛津词典》

4·It is totally out of the question to postpone the midnight deadline.

延迟午夜的最后期限是根本不可能的。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·They just postpone them.

它们只能起到延缓的作用。

6·He did the worst thing he could: postpone the next chariot race.

他做了他能做的最坏的事情：推迟下一场马车比赛。

7·Every generation develops these habits at a certain age, but Millennials seem to be extending this phase of life as they postpone marriage.

每一代人都会在某个年龄段养成这些习惯，但千禧一代似乎因为推迟结婚而延长了这一阶段的生活。

8·Facing a national blood shortage, physicians in Atlanta, Pittsburgh, New York, Baltimore and Washington moved to postpone nonemergency surgeries.

面对全国性血液供应不足的情况，亚特兰大、匹兹堡、纽约、巴尔的摩和华盛顿的医生都推迟了非紧急手术的时间。

9·Data show that economic downturns tend to postpone marriage because the parties cannot afford to establish a family or are concerned about rainy days ahead.

数据显示，经济低迷往往会推迟婚姻，因为双方负担不起组建家庭的费用，或者担心未来会有不测。

10·We'll have to postpone the meeting until next week.

我们将不得不把会议推迟到下周举行。《牛津词典》

推迟

1·Data show that economic downturns tend to postpone marriage because the parties cannot afford to establish a family or are concerned about rainy days ahead.

数据显示，经济低迷往往会推迟婚姻，因为双方负担不起组建家庭的费用，或者担心未来会有不测。

2·He did the worst thing he could: postpone the next chariot race.

他做了他能做的最坏的事情：推迟下一场马车比赛。

3·We'll have to postpone the meeting until next week.

我们将不得不把会议推迟到下周举行。《牛津词典》

4·He decided to postpone the expedition until the following day.

他决定将探险活动推迟到第二天。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·The sports meeting was supposed to take place on Tuesday, but we've had to postpone it because of the weather.

运动会本应该在周二召开的，但因为天气原因，我们不得不将它推迟了。

延迟

1·It is totally out of the question to postpone the midnight deadline.

延迟午夜的最后期限是根本不可能的。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Nevertheless, even aid on this scale might only postpone an eventual default, if Greece's economy fails to grow faster than its debt pile.

尽管如此，如果希腊的经济成长速率不能比其债务累积速率要快，那么即使如此规模的援助恐怕也只能延迟其违约的发生。

3·She said that when she was “truly incapacitated, ” her doctor still wanted her to postpone surgery.

她说自己已经“真正丧失了行动力”，但就算这样，她的医生依然希望她能延迟手术。

4·Unilever would not say how long it would postpone the price rise.

联合利华并没有明确表示其延迟上调价格的期限。

5·But if you wanted to postpone it over seven years or so, time got a lot more expensive.

但如果你要延迟七年以上时间还款，时间价值就很昂贵了。

延缓

1·Financial constraints cause many to skip antenatal care or postpone treatment for minor ailments.

经济制约使许多人不去接受产前保健或延缓治疗小病。

2·For armed conflict, the positive social mechanisms could neither reduce the number of wars nor indefinitely postpone The Times of war outbreak in any cooling periods.

就武装冲突而言，在所有的气候变冷时期，任何有效的社会机制都不能减少战争的数量也不能无限期地延缓战争爆发的时间。

3·This has become for us all a tremendous and inevitable responsibility towards the future generations, which we can neither neglect nor postpone.

这已经成为我们对后代艰巨而又不可推卸的责任，我们对这样的责任既不能疏忽又不能延缓。

4·Of course, such measures just postpone the evil day.

当然，这些措施只能延缓那邪恶一天的到来。

5·It is advisable to postpone important decisions until the depression has lifted.

延缓做出重要决定直到抑郁消散是明智的。

延期

1·Either party may request to postpone the hearing with in the time limit provided by the Arbitration Rules if there is a genuine reason.

当事人有正当理由的，可以在仲裁规则规定的期限内请求延期开庭。

2·Mr. Lee: That’s right I’m afraid I have to postpone it.

是的，恐怕得延期了。

3·While these may not prevent you from having gastric bypass surgery, your doctors may want to postpone surgery to ensure that any condition is appropriately treated and managed.

尽管这些并不妨碍你接受胃分流术，医生可能会将手术延期以保证任何情况都已得到治疗及合理控制。

4·Where the applicant wishes to postpone the execution.

申请人表示可以延期执行的。

5·We've had to postpone going to France because the children are ill.

我们不得不延期去法国，因为孩子们病了。

延

1·I am calling to postpone my appointment.

我打电话来是要把预约延后。

2·I no longer want to postpone anything in life.

我不想再把生命中的任何事延后。

3·With borrowing costs once again spiralling this week, Mr Zapatero was forced to postpone his summer holiday to cope with the crisis.

随着这周借贷成本又一次的急剧增加，萨帕特罗先生被迫将他的假期延后去解决这次危机。

4·Would you please tell Andrew I have to postpone our meeting?

能请你告诉安德鲁我必须将会面延后吗？

5·I no longer want to postpone anything in life. And that urgency, that purpose, has really changed my life.

我不想再把生命中的任何事延后，这种紧迫感、目标性改变了我的生命。

暂缓

1·We cannot request the time to postpone to coordinate our footsteps, can only try to catch up as far as possible …If you can the control time, you be able to control all.

我们不能要求时间暂缓来配合我们的脚步，只能尽量迎头赶上……如果你能控制时间，你就能控制一切。

2·I shall postpone writing till I learn full particulars.

在未得知详情前我将暂缓写信。

3·The Requested Party may postpone assistance if execution of the request would interfere with an ongoing investigation or prosecution in the Requested Party.

如执行要求会妨碍正在被要求方进行的侦查或检控，被要求方可暂缓提供协助。

4·Under the rightful conditions both in laws and in the subcontract, the chief contractor is entitled to detain or postpone full or part money for paying subcontractor.

在不损害适用法律或分包合同所规定的任何权利的情况下，总包商有权扣留或暂缓支付总包商应付给分包商的全部或部分到期金额。

5·Taobao mall announced Monday that it will postpone raising its annual service fees and deposits for its registered sellers, after its small vendors protested the move.

经过小卖家的抗议，淘宝商城周一宣布将暂缓向注册小卖家提高年费和保证金。

缓

1·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。《新英汉大辞典》

推延

1·Higher walls, tougher visa restrictions, and ships patrolling borders in increasing numbers will only postpone the day of reckoning.

更高的墙壁，更为严格的签证限制，不断增加的海岸边境巡查只是推延了这一天的到来。