delay

音标发音

• 英式音标 [dɪˈleɪ]
• 美式音标 [dɪˈleɪ]
• 国际音标 [di'lei]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• v. 延期；（使）耽擱；推遲
• n. 延遲的時間；延期；延時；延遲器
• n. (Delay) （美）德萊（人名）

词源解说

• 13世紀晚期進入英語，直接源自古法語的delaier：de(離開）+laier(讓），意爲讓……離開；最初源自古典拉丁語的laxare，意爲解散，放松。

词根记忆

• de + lay(放下)→放下不琯→耽擱

同根派生

• adj性質的同根詞

  delayed：延時的；定時的。

• n性質的同根詞

  delayer：緩燃劑，延緩劑；延遲器。

• v性質的同根詞

  delayed：延遲（delay的過去式）。

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用法辨析

v. (動詞)

• delay的基本意思是行動遲緩而耽誤了進程,可指由於外界原因而推遲,也可指有意推遲。
• delay可用作不及物動詞,也可用作及物動詞。用作及物動詞時,接名詞、代詞或動名詞作賓語,不接動詞不定式作賓語。接表人的名詞或代詞作賓語時,一般譯爲“使某人誤事”或“使某人慢下來”; 接表事〔事物〕的名詞或代詞作賓語時,通常譯爲“推遲〔耽擱〕做某事”。

n. (名詞)

• delay指“耽擱,延遲”這一行爲或情況本身時,是不可數名詞; 表示具躰的“被耽擱〔推遲〕的事件或時間”時,是可數名詞。
• delay在句中可用作主語、賓語或表語。常與“in+ v -ing”連用。
• delay的意思爲“推遲”，“延期”，相儅於put off，其後通常接名詞，動名詞作賓語，一般很少接不定式。I have to delay answering his question.
• delay in解釋爲“把某事耽擱”，其後一般接動名詞，不接不定式或者of加動名詞。Excuse me for my delay in answering your question. 請原諒我耽擱了廻答你的問題。

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英汉例句

用作動詞 (v.)

用作不及物動詞: S+～(+A)

• Don't delay.The bell is going to ring.Please turn in your paper immediately.
  別拖延了,鈴就要響了,馬上交卷吧。

用作及物動詞: S+～+ n./pron.

• Tell him I have a headache,I won't delay him today.
  告訴他我頭疼,今天不耽擱他了。

S+～+(sb's) v -ing

• Why have they delayed opening the new school?
  他們爲什麽遲遲不開辦那所新學校?

用作名詞 (n.)

• His delay made the teacher angry.
  他的遲到使老師生氣了。

～+in sth/ v -ing

• The delay in the power station expansion project has affected the supply of electricity.
  發電站擴建工程的拖延已影響到供電。

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词组短语

用作動詞 (v.)

～+名詞

• delay a settlement of the question 推遲解決問題
• delay answering the letter 推遲答複
• delay dinner 推遲宴會
• delay one 's work 耽誤工作
• delay the appointment 推遲任命

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英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• to make something happen at a later time than originally planned or expected
• the situation in which you have to wait longer than expected for something to happen, or the time that you have to wait

柯林斯英英字典

• If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
• To delay someone or something means to make them late or to slow them down.
• If you delay, you deliberately take longer than necessary to do something.
• If there is a delay, something does not happen until later than planned or expected.
• Delay is a failure to do something immediately or in the required or usual time.

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