deliver /dɪˈlɪvə/ CET4 TEM4 ( delivering, delivered, delivers )

• 1. 

  V-T If you deliver something somewhere, you take it there. 递送

  例：

  The Canadians plan to deliver more food to southern Somalia.

  加拿大人计划向索马里南部运送更多的食物。

• 2. 

  V-T/V-I If you deliver something that you have promised to do, make, or produce, you do, make, or produce it. 实现; 履行

  例：

  They have yet to show that they can really deliver working technologies.

  他们仍需证明他们确实能够实现可用的技术。

  例：

  The question is, can he deliver?

  问题是他能履行吗？

• 3. 

  V-T If you deliver a lecture or speech, you give it in public. 发表 [正式]

  例：

  The president will deliver a speech about schools.

  校长将发表关于学校的演讲。

• 4. 

  V-T When someone delivers a baby, they help the woman who is giving birth to the baby. 给 (产妇) 接生

  例：

  Although we'd planned to have our baby at home, we never expected to deliver her ourselves!

  尽管我们是打算在家生孩子，可我们从未想过要自己给她接生!

• 5. 

  V-T If someone delivers a blow to someone else, they hit them. 给予 (打击) [书面]

  例：

  Those blows to the head could have been delivered by a woman.

  头上挨的那些打可能是一个女人所为。