They hoped the delay would give reasonable men of the North and South time to find a permanent answer to the issue of slavery.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

We can think in terms of repetition, obviously, as the delay that sets in between an origin and an end.

我们可以想想看这里面的重复，很明显，重复性的情节将起因和结果隔开来。

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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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They could not understand the delay in carrying out the agreement.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

Who among us would be content with the counsels of patience and delay?

我们当中有谁会愿意,看病时一等再等？

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The weather caused part of the delay.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

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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The delay was in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

But it's not just that the middles of fiction involve these processes of delay.

但并不只是小说的中间部分,会涉及延迟这一过程这么简单。

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The delay stranded 2,500 passengers and affected thousands more, many on holiday trips.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

So, it's not really a developmental ... it's not really a developmental delay in the way that it might make sense to think about certain forms of retardation.

孤独症并非发展延迟,不应当把它理解为,某种形式的发育迟缓

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It would be weeks before he could catch another flight home, but the delay gave him time to hike the Annapurna Circuit, a 14-day trek through the Himalayas.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

(Voice) She noted the reason for the delay from the originally scheduled date of January 16 was because the commission had stopped working while the lawmakers debated the law.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

A senior U.S.official who spoke to reporters said Iran had sent diplomatic signals that it would respond to the P5+1 offer after its June presidential elections, and that post-election political "mayhem" in that country was probably behind the delay.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

Older women might be less likely to delay because they know that the older they get, the higher the risks.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

I.C.C.countries also agreed to delay any action by the court on aggression until they re-examine the issue in seven years.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

He helped give the Irish band a musical identity with the use of delay effects in repeating notes.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

The placement creates a longer delay between the time the left and right nostrils receive an odor than in sharks with pointed noses.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

But historians say Webster's support for the compromise of eighteen fifty probably helped delay that crisis.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

But experts say the medicine could still do some good even if there is a delay.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

But a new study from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland found no need to delay.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

Without delay, I forced him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over him.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

They say using the method could delay other ways to re-start breathing in the victim.

VOA: special.2010.08.17

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

VOA: special.2010.12.14

A delay gave him time to take a fourteen-day hiking trip in the Himalayas.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

The man was angry. The accident would delay his arrival at the camp.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

But students and teachers voted to keep the half-hour delay for another term.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

A delay of even one second could affect the information being collected.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

The huge costs of space flights often delay them for years.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi took the rare step of calling House lawmakers back to Washington to vote on the bill and send it to President Obama without delay.

VOA: special.2010.08.12