释义
delay an event temporarily so as to have longer to improve one's own position
（暂时拖延以）赢得时间，争取时间。
双语例句
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People are also trying to buy time.
人们还试图购买时间。
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Ah... Really? But how can I buy time?
啊…真的？但是，我怎么能买时间呢？
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Buy time and continue cutting wages and deficits.
拖延时间，继续消减薪资和财政赤字。
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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。
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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。
近义词
v.
race against timemake time