The researchers said these drugs may delay or stop development of an enlarged prostate.

VOA: special.2010.12.14

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 first delay is decision making in the family whether to seek care or not.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

"There was a little bit of a delay, but I think in the last four or five months, we have seen renewed emphasis being put again on improving relations with the Muslim world and dialogue and on implementing the promises of the Cairo speech."

VOA: standard.2010.05.11