deferring

英 [dɪˈfɜːrɪŋ]

美 [dɪˈfɜːrɪŋ]

v.  推迟; 延缓; 展期
defer的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• VERB 推迟;拖延;延缓
  If youdeferan event or action, you arrange for it to happen at a later date, rather than immediately or at the previously planned time.
  1. Customers often defer payment for as long as possible...
     顾客常常会尽可能地拖延付款。
  2. I'm not going to defer decisions just because they are not immediately politically popular.
     我不会因为它们没有即刻在政治上受到欢迎就推迟作出这些决定。
• VERB 遵从;听从;顺从
  If youdefer tosomeone, you accept their opinion or do what they want you to do, even when you do not agree with it yourself, because you respect them or their authority.
  1. Doctors are encouraged to defer to experts.
     鼓励医生听从专家的意见。

双语例句

• By deferring the activation of a plug-in, the user is given the impression of a zippier product.
  通过延迟插件的激活，会给用户一种产品更为灵活的印象。
• When the government brought in the International Monetary Fund in late 2008 the IMF prescribed deferring the pain for a year.
  2008年年末，冰岛政府向国际货币基金组织（imf）求援，imf开出的处方让冰岛的痛苦推迟了一年。
• He kept deferring uxoriously to mary.
  他一直对玛丽很疼爱、顺从。
• Without altering the overall business process flow, that step can be replaced by a service in which business rules automate routine approvals while deferring more difficult decisions to humans.
  在不改变总体业务流程流的前提下，可以使用服务替代该步骤，在此服务中，使用业务规则自动化例行的审批工作，而同时将较为困难的情况提交给相关人员决定。
• Or deferring the query as long as possible.
  ，即尽可能长的延迟查询语句的执行。
• But criticising an American company comes easier than deferring to critics of the police.
  但是批评一家美国公司要比听从对警察的批评容易得多。
• With today's macroeconomic uncertainty, users are deferring new equipment purchases and lab testing.
  因为现在的经济存在不确定性，所以客户都推迟购买新设备和进行实验室测试。
• Infrastructure team members learned to refuse the interruptions, deferring to the process above for such requests.
  基础架构团队成员了解到要拒绝这种干扰，于是遵从上述流程来处理这类请求。
• When arbitrary cuts are imposed, agencies respond by deferring maintenance, leading to greater liabilities later.
  如果强制实施随意性的削减，政府机构会以推迟尽责来应对，日后欠下的账会更大。
• By deferring the work, there is less load on the database during peak times.
  通过推迟工作，可以降低数据库在高峰时间的负载。