埃德蒙顿华人社区-Edmonton China

 找回密码
 注册
查看: 3209|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?# n$ O! a& o8 k/ y4 W2 F
  K. B/ E2 Z3 J6 u, r7 g+ l
Thanks.
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.
/ W$ X: d# }+ K& ~/ h5 x; B. Q
# s6 x* C  C; d3 l- C5 \0 `If something will be pushed back in time by a few hours, it's delayed. For example, weather can delay the departure of a plane.
! [3 Q+ J* G4 ]9 j/ j- j0 d' ^! X) J8 A+ Y- K* r1 E. q6 u
When 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.; ^% b) ]  F) ^. O9 S) A

- u, s( L$ K5 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./ M3 N7 v& W# o6 {. j7 b1 G/ r& F

1 J/ i( {1 ]- n" R( N, wIf something will be pushed back in time by a few hours, it's delayed. For example, weather can delay the depar ...# n# j* u4 X* u
Xbfeng 发表于 2009-6-4 17:32
# i1 N- Q# w, I  Z: I; Y/ I

2 M9 Z6 Q4 B, R3 aWELL 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, 2025-12-28 12:04 , Processed in 0.072691 second(s), 19 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