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
用法辨析
- 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”。
- 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。
v. (动词)
n. (名词)
英汉例句
- 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。 - 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。 - Why have they delayed opening the new school?
他们为什么迟迟不开办那所新学校? - His delay made the teacher angry.
他的迟到使老师生气了。 - 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。
用作动词 (v.)
用作不及物动词: S+~(+A)
用作及物动词: S+~+ n./pron.
S+~+(sb's) v -ing
用作名词 (n.)
~+in sth/ v -ing
词组短语
- 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
用作动词 (v.)
~+名词
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
- 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.