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/poʊsˈpoʊn/ · /pəʊsˈpəʊn/
To change a planned event to a later time.
延期；推遲
過去式 postponed過去分詞 postponed-ing postponing三單 postpones
核心畫面
One way to picture postpone: the event stays on the calendar, but you slide it to a later square. It is not cancelling — the thing is still going to happen; only the date moved. That is the difference a most often needs: postpone moves it, cancel removes it.
可以想成 postpone 是「活動還留在行事曆上，只是被你往後推了幾格」。它不是取消——事情還是會發生，動的只有日…更多收起
可以想成 postpone 是「活動還留在行事曆上，只是被你往後推了幾格」。它不是取消——事情還是會發生，動的只有日期。這正是最需要分清楚的地方：postpone 是往後移，cancel 是整個拿掉。原始詞典資料2 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。
postponeverb/pəʊstˈpəʊn/
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To delay or put off an event, appointment, etc.
- “[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”
- Significant rail projects have been mothballed before in the face of changed circumstances – in particular, the LNER Woodhead project which was postponed due to wartime conditions and not revived until 1948, as money became available after nationalisation.
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obsoleteTo place after in order; to deem less important.
- Why should the See of Antioch, that most ancient and truly Apostolical Church, where the Christian name began […] be postponed to Alexandria?
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。