postponing

英 [pəˈspəʊnɪŋ]

美 [poʊˈspoʊnɪŋ]

v.  延迟; 延期; 展缓
postpone的现在分词

现在分词：postponing　

柯林斯词典

• VERB 推迟；使延期；延缓
  If youpostponean event, you delay it or arrange for it to take place at a later time than was originally planned.
  1. He decided to postpone the expedition until the following day...
     他决定把探险推迟到第二天。
  2. The visit has now been postponed indefinitely.
     参观现在已经被无限期推迟了。

双语例句

• It took a bit of practice to get this to work but I have gotten pretty good at postponing thinking in this way.
  我做了一些锻炼使它得以工作但是我变得相当擅长于用这种方法推迟思考。
• People are postponing their decision to buy a car, and this has an immediate effect on order intake.
  人们正推迟买车决定，这会立刻影响收到的订单数量。
• They tend to have children later, postponing the responsibilities of parenthood.
  因为她们生孩子的时间相对较晚，推迟了她们承担为人父母责任的时间。
• The paper analyzes the necessity and feasibility of postponing the statutory retirement age comprehensively, and gives some advice on it.
  文章全面分析了延迟法定退休年龄的必要性和可行性，并提出了延迟法定退休年龄的政策建议。
• Companies are postponing courses, he says, taking longer to make decisions and taking longer to pay.
  他表示公司现在需要更长时间才能做出决定，也需要更长时间才能付款，这导致课程被推迟。
• But growth is not a good excuse for postponing much-needed structural adjustment.
  但增长并非推迟急需进行的结构性调整的借口。
• Orders to our export oriented customers have reduced, and companies are postponing their investment plans.
  我们的出口型客户的订单减少了，很多公司推迟了投资计划。
• I don't hold with the idea of postponing further discussion of the matter.
  我不赞成推迟进一步讨论这件事的想法。
• If we wait until Pemex alone has a greater capacity [ to extract oil and gas], I think we would be postponing what today represents a great opportunity for growth and greater development, he said.
  如果我们要等到Pemex具有（采掘油气的）更大能力，我认为我们将延误当今一个极好的增长和扩大发展的良机，他表示。
• It said their retirement dreams are being crushed with most postponing their retirement date by around five years.
  他们的退休梦想破灭了，大多数人都将他们的退休年龄推迟了五年左右。