An obstacle, setback or delay means only one thing: it's not time for your goal to be completed yet.

一个障碍、挫败或延迟只意味着一件事：现在还不是你实现目标的时候。

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This suggests the possibility that lifestyle factors might help prevent or delay this type of decline.

这表明生活方式因素可能会有助于预防或延缓这种衰退。

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You may be able to avoid or delay surgery.

说不定你就能避免或推迟手术。

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Ms.Gardiner said the delay between the arrival of the smell at each nostril could be as little as a half second or less.

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So displacement is a kind of delay or detour of understanding, and condensation, on the other hand, is a kind of distillation of understanding.

所以“移置“是一种滞后的，迂回的理解，而另一方面，“凝缩“,则是理解的提炼过程。

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Metonymy is the delay or perpetual, as we gathered also from Derrida, differance of signification.

转喻具有那种延期和永恒的特质，这也是我们从法国人，德里达那本《书写与差异》的书中看出来的。

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"The entire process must be conducted swiftly with no dragging or delay, " the CBRC said.

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Whether the survey results will prevent or delay privacy laws remains to be seen, however.

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As a nation we cannot accept further discrimination or delay from House Republican leaders.

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