This is not going to cost the taxpayer anything. The company will bear the costs for the delay.

这不会花纳税人的钱。公司将承担延误费用。

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From a medical standpoint a week is usually not a consequential delay.

从医学观点看，一周通常不被视为是严重的拖延。

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

置换是理解的一种延迟或迂回，而另一方面，凝结则是理解的一种升华。

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

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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 main weapon of opposition parties, after all, is delay and governments are bound occasionally to use the guillotine in response.

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But if there is delay and dithering with no credible plan, says Mr Davies, the response of both the currency markets and the bond markets will be fierce.

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Another tactic is delay.

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