Officials predict that this increase is sufficient to ensure that the incidence of delays due to crowding does not increase.

官员们预测，这一增长足以确保因拥挤而造成的延误不会增加。

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But the pilots were tired of delays.

不过飞行员们早已厌倦了延期。

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Another source of delays is miscommunication.

延迟的另一个来源是错误传达。

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There have been delays before. Officials said the average processing time in October of two thousand three was seventy-five days.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

Now as metonymy, the delays we have been talking about, -- the paratactic structure of the way in which the story is told-- all of those, and the elements of repetition, are forms that we recognize as metonymic, but there's something beyond that at the level of theme.

作为转喻，我们之前说过的延后，在这个故事中表现为那种并列的结构-,都是重复的元素，我们把它们看做是转喻的，但是还有些东西在这个主题之上。

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Ad Melkert told the Security Council that the delays affect the rebuilding of basic services in Iraq.

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Rebuilding, now feverishly under way, was slow to start, mainly because of delays in insurance payouts.

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Of course, with big diseases come the sorts of delays that often plague big pharmaceutical firms.

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Catch an early morning flight to avoid a build up of delays later in the day.

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