| 单词 | temporize |
| 释义 | temporize (once / 6545 pages) v The verb temporize describes stalling in order to gain time in the hopes of avoiding or preventing something. Your class might temporize so your teacher won't have time to give the pop quiz you all think she's going to give. Accent the first syllable of temporize: "TEM-puh-rise." Tempor- means "time," which you probably recognize from other time-related words such as temporary, temporal, and contemporary. Temporize comes from the Middle French word temporiser, meaning "to pass one's time, wait one's time." WORD FAMILYtemporize: temporized, temporizer, temporizes, temporizing+/temporizer: temporizers USAGE EXAMPLESInfinitives are timeless and tenseless, “infinite” until human action temporizes and personalizes them. The New Yorker(Apr 18, 2016) There is an odd new law of U.S. politics: You can lie, as Trump does all the time, egregiously, but you can’t temporize. Time(Mar 17, 2016) Her meandering and overly voluble temporizing was a perfect rhetorical analogue to Tinguely’s mechanical circus. Washington Post(Mar 10, 2016) v draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time The speaker temporized in order to delay the vote Syn|Hyper temporise draw out, extend, prolong, protract lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer |
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