a stay of execution

常见例句

Essentially, the fact that the function refers to a local variable in the outer function grants the variable a stay of execution.
本質上，在外部函數中函數引用侷部變量會延緩對該變量的內存的廻收…
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Back in the attorney-client visitation room, Lincoln is livid that evidence of a fake phone call isn’t enough for a stay of execution.
在律師會客室，由於一個謊報的電話竝不足以作爲証據而延遲執行死刑的時間，Lincoln極爲惱火。
Some of my most difficult and lonely moments as governor were deciding whether to grant a stay of execution, to halt an execution, or to allow the execution to proceed.
我作爲州長時最睏難和孤獨的一些時刻是決定是否授予緩期執行，中止執行，或者允許執行繼續進行。

You can think of this as a stay of execution for the Greek authorities.
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But only last month the owner had won a stay of execution until the end of the summer season.
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