vt.延期；推遲

She did not postpone her departure. 她不再延遲她的行期。

Can we postpone the meeting till tomorrow? 我們可以把會(huì)議延到明天嗎?

The commander decided to postpone the big push until the spring. 指揮官?zèng)Q定把大規(guī)模的進(jìn)攻推遲到春天進(jìn)行。

We agree to postpone the shipping date, considering (that) there is no steamer recently. 由于(考慮到)最近無船，我們同意推遲裝期。

Our financial situation is still precarious if we postpone the release of the new product. 如果我們推遲發(fā)布新產(chǎn)品的話，我們的財(cái)政狀況仍然岌岌可危。

postpone是及物動(dòng)詞,基本意思是“延期”“推遲”,一般指有意地拖延且通常拖延到某一確定的時(shí)間。后面跟延期或推遲的日期或其他修飾語。所延長(zhǎng)的時(shí)間常用for引出,有時(shí)也可省略,延到某時(shí)則用to, untill或till。

postpone可接動(dòng)名詞作賓語,但不能接動(dòng)詞不定式。