defer
defer 英 [dɪˈfɜ:(r)] 美 [dɪˈfɚ]
v. 推迟，延期；服从
进行时:deferring 过去式:deferred 过去分词:deferred 第三人称单数:defers
- Defer means to put off or delay. You can try to defer the inevitable by pushing “snooze” and falling back asleep, but eventually you're going to have to get up.
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- v. 推迟，延期；服从
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1. The department deferred the decision for six months.
这个部门推迟了六个月才作决定。
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2. She had applied for deferred admission to college.
她已申请延期入学。
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3. We will defer to whatever the committee decides.
我们遵从委员会的任何决定。
- defer (v.1) "to delay," late 14c., differren, deferren, from Old French differer (14c.), from Latin differre "carry apart, scatter, disperse;" also "be different, differ;" also "defer, put off, postpone," (see differ). Etymologically identical with differ; the spelling and pronunciation differentiated from 15c., perhaps partly by association of this word with delay.
- defer (v.2) "yield," mid-15c., from Middle French déférer (14c.) "to yield, comply," from Latin deferre "carry away, transfer, grant," from de- "down, away" (see de-) + ferre "to carry," from PIE root *bher- (1) "to carry." Main modern sense is from meaning "refer (a matter) to someone," which also was in Latin.
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