protract
常见例句
- Let's not protract the debate any further.
我们不要再继续争论下去了。 - Their guest did not protract his stay that evening above an hour longer.
那天晚上他们的客人逗留不到一个钟头。
putclub.org - There is good news, then, for those who enjoy parliamentary pyrotechnics: Mr Willetts’s plan seems destined to protract the debate over university funding rather than resolve it.
对那些享受议会争锋相对的火药味的人来说也有好消息:维莱特先生的计划似乎注定会延长这场关于大学收费的辩论,而不是解决它。 - The alternative is to protract the collective suffering with short-term deficit reductions that only guarantee bigger deficits in the future.
FORBES: Credit Counselors Face Challenges of Their Own -- Just When They're Needed Most - There is good news, then, for those who enjoy parliamentary pyrotechnics: Mr Willetts's plan seems destined to protract the debate over university funding rather than resolve it.
ECONOMIST: Paying for university - Remember, ultimately, the United States fights short wars brilliantly and long wars poorly, and the enemy knows that, and therefore, his object here is to use the suicide bomber to protract the campaign, affect the will of the Iraqi people and preserve his force in being.
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