defer
v. 推迟,拖延; 听从
If you defer an event or action, you arrange for it to happen at a later date, rather than immediately or at the previously planned time.
Customers often defer payment for as long as possible...
顾客常常会尽可能地拖延付款。
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。
If you defer to someone, 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.
Doctors are encouraged to defer to experts.
鼓励医生听从专家的意见。
1. hold back to a later time;
2. submit or yield to another's wish or opinion;
delay, postpone, defer, suspend, prolong, put off
这些动词或短语动词均有"推延,延期"之意。
We will defer to whatever the committee decides.
我们遵从委员会作出的任何决定.
The company agreed to defer payment for three months.
公司同意延期三个月后付款.
When It comes to breaking and entering , I defer to Kapowski.
当他们休息进来的时候, 我听从卡波司基的.
In the review stage, I defer to such mentality to carry on.
在复习阶段, 我就是按照这样的思路进行的.
What reason can bring about menstruation to defer?
有什么原因能导致月经推迟?