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）耽搁；推迟
• n. 延迟的时间；延期；延时；延迟器
• n. (Delay) （美）德莱（人名）

词源解说

• 13世纪晚期进入英语，直接源自古法语的delaier：de(离开）+laier(让），意为让……离开；最初源自古典拉丁语的laxare，意为解散，放松。

词根记忆

• de + lay(放下)→放下不管→耽搁

同根派生

• adj性质的同根词

  delayed：延时的；定时的。

• n性质的同根词

  delayer：缓燃剂，延缓剂；延迟器。

• v性质的同根词

  delayed：延迟（delay的过去式）。

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用法辨析

v. (动词)

• delay的基本意思是行动迟缓而耽误了进程,可指由于外界原因而推迟,也可指有意推迟。
• delay可用作不及物动词,也可用作及物动词。用作及物动词时,接名词、代词或动名词作宾语,不接动词不定式作宾语。接表人的名词或代词作宾语时,一般译为“使某人误事”或“使某人慢下来”; 接表事〔事物〕的名词或代词作宾语时,通常译为“推迟〔耽搁〕做某事”。

n. (名词)

• delay指“耽搁,延迟”这一行为或情况本身时,是不可数名词; 表示具体的“被耽搁〔推迟〕的事件或时间”时,是可数名词。
• delay在句中可用作主语、宾语或表语。常与“in+ v -ing”连用。
• delay的意思为“推迟”，“延期”，相当于put off，其后通常接名词，动名词作宾语，一般很少接不定式。I have to delay answering his question.
• delay in解释为“把某事耽搁”，其后一般接动名词，不接不定式或者of加动名词。Excuse me for my delay in answering your question. 请原谅我耽搁了回答你的问题。

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英汉例句

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词: S+～(+A)

• Don't delay.The bell is going to ring.Please turn in your paper immediately.
  别拖延了,铃就要响了,马上交卷吧。

用作及物动词: S+～+ n./pron.

• Tell him I have a headache,I won't delay him today.
  告诉他我头疼,今天不耽搁他了。

S+～+(sb's) v -ing

• Why have they delayed opening the new school?
  他们为什么迟迟不开办那所新学校?

用作名词 (n.)

• His delay made the teacher angry.
  他的迟到使老师生气了。

～+in sth/ v -ing

• The delay in the power station expansion project has affected the supply of electricity.
  发电站扩建工程的拖延已影响到供电。

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词组短语

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

• delay a settlement of the question 推迟解决问题
• delay answering the letter 推迟答复
• delay dinner 推迟宴会
• delay one 's work 耽误工作
• delay the appointment 推迟任命

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英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• 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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