It was a risky operation, but might buy more time.

这是一项冒险的举动，但也许能换得更多的时间。

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The inventors of this robot said with this robot, rescuers would be able to buy more time to save lives during an earthquake.

这个机器人的发明者表示，有了这个机器人，救援人员将能够在地震中争取更多的时间来拯救生命。

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I think we would try to buy more time.

我想我们应设法拖延时间。

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Is he trying to buy more time to get the economy turned around when he says that?

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The cumulative effect of these three repercussions will be to buy more time for the mullahs in Iran.

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They can decide to just delay all, most or some parts of implementation to buy more time to more definitively kick the can.

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