埃德蒙顿华人社区-Edmonton China

 找回密码
 注册
查看: 3260|回复: 5

does anyone know what different between postpone and delay?

[复制链接]
鲜花(362) 鸡蛋(0)
发表于 2009-6-4 11:52 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
老杨团队,追求完美;客户至上,服务到位!
When I write a report, some project were postponed/delayed? what is the different?
$ R/ s6 O) t* x) k! y( n
/ {2 b" h( P8 Y- y4 bThanks.
鲜花(77) 鸡蛋(0)
发表于 2009-6-4 17:32 | 显示全部楼层
They certainly have similar meanings, but they are not interchangeable in many cases.
# H( D* i2 a* t4 I# P
$ U$ x/ P- ~6 e/ _  GIf something will be pushed back in time by a few hours, it's delayed. For example, weather can delay the departure of a plane./ x! i& G8 U& {* i

+ Q9 Q& h2 R9 V4 _9 J3 TWhen something is pushed back to a specific date, days or even weeks later, it's postponed. A business meeting might be postponed because one of the key people got called out of town.
; O+ J! X2 m' Y5 V1 b
2 K: G: j% W& p3 fOn the other hand, something like a product that is supposed to be released can be "delayed" (not postponed) for months.
鲜花(0) 鸡蛋(0)
发表于 2009-6-5 17:35 | 显示全部楼层
又学到了有用的词汇知识!
鲜花(152) 鸡蛋(1)
发表于 2009-6-6 22:35 | 显示全部楼层
老杨团队 追求完美
They certainly have similar meanings, but they are not interchangeable in many cases.; z) G. ]2 J$ J4 [
* G$ X& G9 B  X2 b; J; w
If something will be pushed back in time by a few hours, it's delayed. For example, weather can delay the depar ...
' R7 X" Z& X2 @Xbfeng 发表于 2009-6-4 17:32
0 u  k' g6 T+ _- Z  w( {
. X5 K* g2 W2 Z. D6 J0 x
WELL EXPLAINED
鲜花(362) 鸡蛋(0)
 楼主| 发表于 2009-6-8 16:09 | 显示全部楼层
鲜花(327) 鸡蛋(0)
发表于 2009-6-20 23:48 | 显示全部楼层
感觉是从上级那里来DELAY,都是POSTPONE,下级那里来的就成了DELAY了。因为有人可以BLAME了。哈哈。。。
您需要登录后才可以回帖 登录 | 注册

本版积分规则

联系我们|小黑屋|手机版|Archiver|埃德蒙顿中文网

GMT-7, 2026-3-17 04:58 , Processed in 0.113989 second(s), 17 queries , Gzip On, APC On.

Powered by Discuz! X3.4

Copyright © 2001-2021, Tencent Cloud.

快速回复 返回顶部 返回列表