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postpone

🇬🇧/pəˈspəʊn/ 🇺🇸/poʊˈspoʊn/📚 6649 138 2四级六级考研托福雅思高考
If you postpone an event, you delay it or arrange for it to take place at a later time than was originally planned. 推迟

verb [vt. 及物动词]推迟，延缓；把…放在次要地位；把…放在后面

He decided to postpone the expedition until the following day.
他决定将探险活动推迟到第二天。

post- 表示“在后面”、“邮件，邮政”postpone 推迟（post+phone 放→放到后面→推迟）
post(在…后面) + pon(放) + e → 放在后面 → 延期， 推迟
postpone

vt. 使 … 延期；把 … 放在次要地位；把 … 放在后面

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相关词汇

近义词delay/dɪˈleɪ/vi. 耽搁；延期
词组含义例句
postpone sth. until,...推迟至：表示将某事推迟到特定的时间或日期。Do you think it convenience to postpone until 10:30? 你看我们把约会推迟到10点半方便吗？
postpone sth. for将某事推迟到……Our meeting was delayed / postponed for ten minutes.