defer
单词辨析：
较正式用词，多指故意拖延。
The students would like to defer their discussion until next Monday afternoon.
学生们想把讨论会推迟到下星期一下午进行。
The bank agreed to defer their payments for four months.
银行同意他们延期4个月付款。
Hand in your proposal as soon as possible - you have deferred too long.
尽快提交你的议案——你拖延得太久了。
指会议休会、法庭休庭或审判延期。
The meeting is adjourned for an unknown reason.
会议莫名其妙地休会了。
It was almost 10 o'clock when the court adjourned.
法庭休庭的时候差不多已经10点了。
The trial will be adjourned until June.
审判将推迟到6月。
多指由于外在原因而推迟或耽误，有时也指有意推迟。
The rain delayed the opening ceremony for one hour.
大雨使开幕式延迟了1个小时。
The board decided to delay their vacation until next week.
董事会决定把休假推迟到下周。
Don't delay - homework right now!
别拖了，现在就写作业！
多指有计划地延期，通常会明确延期到何时。
They planned to postpone their trip until the spring.
他们打算把旅行推迟到春天。
Nokia has postponed the release of its new product.
诺基亚已经推迟了新产品的发布。
尤指因出现问题或不想现在做某事而推迟，作此义解时常可与 delay 换用。
The sports meeting has been put off/delayed until tomorrow due to bad weather.
由于天气恶劣，运动会推迟到明天举行。
The meeting has been put off/delayed until next week so that more people can attend.
为了使更多的人可以参加，此次会议已推迟到下周。
相关例句：
Doctors are encouraged to defer to experts.
鼓励医生听从专家的意见。
We should defer to our parents'wishes.
我们应当顺从父母的意愿。
Can I safely defer this decision?
我可以安全地推迟这一决策吗？
I'd be happy to defer to your wishes, but there's really nothing I can do.
不是我不买你的面子，实在这事不好办。
We will defer to whatever the Committee decides.
我们遵从委员会作出的任何决定。
I'm not going to defer decisions just because they are not immediately politically popular.
我不会因为它们没有即刻在政治上受到欢迎就推迟作出这些决定。