埃德蒙顿华人社区-Edmonton China

 找回密码
 注册
查看: 3057|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?
* T& |+ d6 P3 h" W6 j
+ s2 [5 M' O# I) NThanks.
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.) ^+ C  u& H- H7 U( L
+ ]- v( q  K8 i4 m$ T, y- |
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.
" O' H4 U' F- e( u. A$ m
6 M, y5 O4 A' _& s# [, l, S+ j! }5 QWhen 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.
& [0 c4 Q' H: b9 s
; h0 Q9 j6 `9 F6 `7 h* }On 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.
* e0 e- Z6 D/ Y5 j
8 J9 A0 T8 ?- {# y% ?2 O4 Q+ XIf something will be pushed back in time by a few hours, it's delayed. For example, weather can delay the depar ...
- l8 s$ ^, |& l$ o8 UXbfeng 发表于 2009-6-4 17:32
" ]- J6 z+ K7 ]! q0 P4 ]$ B/ Z

( U3 U* d5 I+ E8 Y9 [WELL 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, 2025-6-13 19:15 , Processed in 0.327514 second(s), 18 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