delay
/dɪˈleɪ/ 名词 A2中文： 迟延、延迟
- A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity. · the delay before the echo of a sound· Two twenty minutes' delays.
- An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
- Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”).
- An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment.
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The other guests had taken advantage of the Queen’s absence, and were resting in the shade: however, the moment they saw her, they hurried back to the game, the Queen merely remarking that a moment’s delay would cost them their lives.
Allowing the case, however, to stand according to your representation, you must remember, Miss Bennet, that the friend who is supposed to desire his return to the house, and the delay of his plan, has merely desired it, asked it without offering one argument in favour of its propriety.”
Still, the instant’s delay brought Rikki-tikki up to her, and as she plunged into the rat-hole where she and Nag used to live, his little white teeth were clenched on her tail, and he went down with her--and very few mongooses, however wise and old they may be, care to follow a cobra into its hole.
The journey would, moreover, give her a peep at Jane; and, in short, as the time drew near, she would have been very sorry for any delay.
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