delay, postpone, put off的区别

delay, postpone, put off的区别
1. 三者均可表示将某事推迟到原订时间之后的某一时间进行，其后可接名词或动名词(但一般不接不定式)。为了表明推迟到何时，可用介词 to, till, until 等。
They delayed [postponed, put off] leaving. 他们推迟动身。
He decided to delay [postpone, put off] his holiday to [till, untill] next month. 他决定把假期推迟到下个月。
2. 几点细微区别：
(1) delay 除表示推迟日期外，还可表示暂时阻挠或阻挡，因此有“耽搁”、“拖延”等意。如：
The heavy rain delayed my journey. 大雨耽搁了我的行程。
(2) postpone 和 put off 主要用于延期，两者常可换用，只是后者较通俗和口语化；但是 put off 有时以人作宾语，表示借辞推脱或搪塞某人、推迟或取消与某人的约会、使某人不高兴或反感、打扰某人、让某人下车等，此时不宜用 postpone。如：
He tried to put me off with more promises. 他想用更多的诺言来敷衍我。
We’ve invited friends to dinner and it’s too late to put them off now. 我们已邀请朋友来吃饭，现在取消来不及了。

Don’t be put off by the title－it’s a really good book. 别介意这书名不好，它真是本好书。

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Don’t put me off when I’m trying to concentrate. 我正要集中注意力呢，别打扰我。
注：delay 也可以人作宾语，但强调的是耽搁某人的时间。如：
I was delayed by the traffic. 因交通堵塞，我迟到了。
(3) delay 除用作动词外，还用作名词，其余两者不用作名词。如：
We must leave without delay. 我们必须马上离开。
That is the reason of my delay in answering your letter. 这就是我迟迟不给你复信的缘故。
注：名词 delay 后可接 in doing sth，但不接 of doing sth 或不定式。

Lifeguard, sportscaster, movie star, governor, president——there wasn’t much Ronald Reagan didn’t do in life.
“The world was a vast opportunity for him,” Lou Cannon wrote in his biography（传记） of the former US president, who died on June 5, aged 93.
Reagan’s final years saw him fight a losing battle against Alzheimer’s disease（老年痴呆症）. But his positive attitude toward life has given hope to many people.
Born in 1911 to a poor family in a small town in Illinois, his father was a failed salesman who drank too much. It was in these difficult times, though, that Reagan developed the powerful optimism（乐观） that would serve him so well. He always believed better times laying ahead, and this was reflected in his high school yearbook entry. “Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music,” he wrote.
As a teenager, Reagan spent summers working as a lifeguard at a local beach, saving 77 lives in seven years. He graduated from college in 1932 with a degree in economics and sociology. But America was still in the middle of the Great Depression, and jobs were hard to find. Reagan finally found work as a radio sports announcer and this road led him to Hollywood in 1937.
During the 20 year film career, he never became a leading star. As in his lifeguard days, Reagan loved to play the hero and only took the role of a bad guy once in more than 50 films.

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