protract
protract 英 [prə'trækt] 美 [proˈtrækt, prə-]
vt. 绘制；延长；伸展
进行时:protracting 过去式:protracted 过去分词:protracted 第三人称单数:protracts
- To protract something is to stretch it out. If you have a disagreement with a friend that you continue for weeks and weeks, you are protracting the argument.
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- vt. 绘制；延长；伸展
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1. Let's not protract the debate any further.
我们不要再继续争论下去了。
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2. Their guest did not protract his stay that evening above an hour longer.
那天晚上他们的客人逗留不到一个钟头。
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3. Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
推迟经常孕育危险；拖延一个伟大的工程常常意味着毁灭它。
- protract (v.) 1530s, a back-formation from protraction and in part from Latin protractus, past participle of protrahere "to draw forth, prolong." Etymologically identical with portray, which was altered in French. Related: Protracted; protracting.
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