英语释义

• act so as to delay an event or action in order to gain an advantage

片语

buy this on time分期付款买东西

buy some time stall拖延时间

buy things on time分期付款买东西

make time腾出时间；抽空；争取时间（=make the time）

to buy time赢得时间

race against time争取时间，分秒必争；与时间赛跑

buy the time创造条件或赢得时间

They Buy Time他们购买时间

buy mechanical time switch伊朗买家

To Buy More Time为赢得更多时间

Buy some time过一段时间再买

英汉例句

• or, the lawyer said, microsoft could seek to delay an immediate decision and buy time by requesting an extension to prepare an answer to the complaint.

  或者，律师表示微软可以寻求不去立刻做出决定，而是要求委员会给予时间这样微软可以準备如何应对这一投诉。

• these are the same type of people who repeat the question you ask them to buy time when they don「t know the answer, hoping you won」t notice that they「re stalling.

  这些人跟不知道答案只好靠重复你的问题争取时间，希望你没注意到他们已大脑当机的家伙是一类货色。

• buy time by turning the question back to the interviewer.

  通过将问题丢回给面试官来争取时间。

• a moratorium would at least buy time to look a bit harder for those fragile peaks.

  暂停海底拖网捕捞至少能为加倍努力寻找这些脆弱的山峰赢得时间。

• he tried to buy time by doing a lot of talking.

  他为了争取时间滔滔不绝地讲个没完。

• both companies aim to buy time for their weaker customers, on the hope they will still need the planes when economic conditions improve.

  两家公司都想为状况不佳的客户争取时间，寄希望于经济好转之后它们仍将需要之前订购的飞机。

• cooling might take the edge off the peak of a planetary fever, or perhaps buy time as emissions cuts begin to have the desired effects. but hazing is a complementary medicine, not an alternative one.

  降温可能会缓解地球发热的峰值，或者为减排措施发挥人所期待的效果争取时间，但是酸雾只是一种辅助药物，不能替代其他方法。

• but it will buy time to shore up its faults. it also would overwhelm doubts that the euro-zone governments really will do everything it takes.

  不过它可以争取到改正过失的时间，同时它也能驳倒那些质疑欧元区各国政府能否做到不遗余力的声音。

• cooling might take the edge off the peak of a planetary fever, or perhaps buy time as emissions cuts begin to have the desired effects.

  云雾降温法也许可以缓解地球的发热程度，或者为减排措施发挥期待效应争取一定的时间。

• mr obama hopes to buy time by dissuading russia from delivering a missile-defence system that iran has ordered and whose deployment could precipitate an israeli attack on iran’s nuclear sites.

  奥巴马希望通过俄国来劝阻伊朗建立导弹防御系统来拖延时间，而且俄国的部署将会促使以色列向伊朗核地区发起进攻。

• the federal reserve seems to be sequestering all of this cash to buy time for the treasury to finish its funding activities.

  美联储似乎扣押所有这一切现金以赢得时间使财政部能完成其筹资活动。

• sadly, this latest deal promises to be no more enduring. at best, it will buy time before the next round of panic.

  令人悲哀的是，最后的解决方案承诺要使欧洲脱离欧债危机之煎熬，但最多它也只能是延迟一下恐慌来临的时间而已。

• but the military success was intended to buy time to stand up afghanistan’s civil society – a hope that has come to naught.

  但依靠美国人的军事力量为阿富汗人建立一个公民社会赢得充足时间——这一设想早已化为了泡影。

• the answer is an 「efficiency surge, 」 a crash improvement that can help offset the steady increase in energy prices and so buy time for the development of carbon-free alternatives.

  专家为此给出的答案是「效率激增」，能源利用效率的急速提高将抵消能源价格逐步增长的效果，并为发展无碳替代能源争取时间。

• the intervention would buy time for diplomacy to work.

  这种干涉是为了有成效的外交而拖延时间。

• speedy but effective diplomacy that doesn」t let iran buy time and lures it into being a responsible regional player must be obama's strategy.

  不允许伊朗拖延时间，同时吸引该国在这一地区负起应有的责任，奥巴马必须采取这种快速有效的外交策略。

• aig, in approaching the fed, was attempting to buy time to sell assets and avoid a classic downward spiral.

  aig正在接近美联储，他们试图拖延时间以出售资产，避免一场典型的螺旋式下坠。

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