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/ˈdedlaɪn/
a date or time by which you must finish or hand in something.
截止日期；最後期限
複數 deadlines
核心畫面
Picture a line drawn across the calendar. Before it, the work still counts; after it, it does not. What makes the word useful is that hard edge — a deadline is not 'roughly when it is due', it is the exact point where the door shuts.
可以想成：在日曆上畫一條線。線之前交出去算數，線之後就不算了。這個字好用的地方就在那道乾脆的邊——deadline …更多收起
可以想成：在日曆上畫一條線。線之前交出去算數，線之後就不算了。這個字好用的地方就在那道乾脆的邊——deadline 不是「大概那時候要交」，而是門關上的那個確切時間點。常見搭配是 meet a deadline（趕上期限）、miss a deadline（沒趕上）、a tight deadline（時間很趕）。原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
deadlinenoun/ˈdɛdˌlaɪn/
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A time limit in the form of a date on or before which something must be completed.
- I must make this deadline or my boss will kill me!
- TfW's [Transport for Wales] plans to meet the PRM [Persons with Reduced Mobility] deadline and withdraw all Pacers by 1 January have been made more difficult by delays to introduction of Class 769 and 230 units.
- 2
archaicA guideline marked on a plate for a printing press.
- 3
archaicA line that does not move.
- 4
archaicA boundary around a prison, prisoners crossing which would be shot.
deadlineverb/ˈdɛdˌlaɪn/
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governmentmilitarypoliticsTo render an item non-mission-capable; to ground an aircraft, etc.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。