delay是什么意思

delay

英 [d?'le?] 美 [d?'le]

delay 延遲

來自法語delaie, 來自de-, 向下，離開，-laie, 留下，停留，詞源同lax, 拼寫受lay影響俗化，引申義延遲。

delay: delay: [13] English acquired delay from Old French delaier, a compound verb formed from the prefix de- ‘off’ and laier ‘leave’. This verb, which also crops up in English relay, appears to have been a variant of laissier (source of English lease), which came from Latin laxāre ‘slacken, undo’. This in turn was derived from the adjective laxus ‘loose’.
=> lax, lease, relay
delay (v.): c. 1300, from Old French delaiier, from de- "away, from" (see de-) + laier "leave, let," probably a variant of Old French laissier, from Latin laxare "slacken, undo" (see lax). Related: Delayed; delaying.
delay (n.): mid-13c., from Old French delaie, from delaiier (see delay (v.)).

1. How much delay should we build into the plan?: 我們應(yīng)該為這個計劃預(yù)留多少富余的時間？

2. The time delay would be smaller by eight orders of magnitude.: 如果按8個數(shù)量級來看，延時量會顯得小一些。

4. A host of problems may delay the opening of the Channel Tunnel.: 可能推遲英吉利海峽隧道開通的問題一大筐。

5. The laws led to confusion, muddle and years of delay.: 這些法律導(dǎo)致了困惑、混亂和數(shù)年的耽擱。