Delayed

(adj.) not as far along as normal in development .

手打:利奥波德

• By a most fortunate chance his leaving Highbury had been delayed so as to bring him to her assistance at this critical moment. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Altogether, on the Isthmus and on the Pacific side, we were delayed six weeks. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• She had understood it was to be delayed till Colonel Campbell's return. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• And in the same interests, if the coming of the physician is delayed, I will enter it again. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It is a forlorn hope at the best, and not much the forlorner for being delayed till dark. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I don't know what would have happened, Walter, said my mother, if you had delayed much longer. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Justice, too, might frequently be delayed, in order that this present might be repeated. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Why had not George's marriage been delayed? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Either his going had been again delayed, or he had yet procured no opportunity of seeing Miss Crawford alone, or he was too happy for letter-writing! 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• If ever she delayed compliance, it was only to hear them repeated, and to enjoy her child's soft, half-playful, half-petulant urgency. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• An accident, for which he was not responsible, delayed him on his errand. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• What a real pity that she stayed so short a time, and you delayed! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The moment he appeared she asked anxiously how long the meeting between her sister and herself was to be still delayed. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I must find Mr. Gardiner this moment, on business that cannot be delayed; I have not an instant to lose. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Her departure, as well as mine, was delayed by a circumstance which I will now relate. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Dearest Lizzy, I hardly know what I would write, but I have bad news for you, and it cannot be delayed. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• How rejoiced was Elizabeth that their own journey had not by any circumstance been delayed a day! 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Some directions necessary to be given to her foreman, John, delayed her behind her cousins as they neared Fieldhead on their return. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Mr. Wickham's happiness and her own were perforce delayed a little longer, and Mr. Collins's proposal accepted with as good a grace as she could. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• But that readjustment cannot be indefinitely delayed; it must come soon. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• To be intruded on Robert thus, against her will and his expectation, and when he evidently would rather not be delayed, keenly annoyed her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I would have delayed; I wished to recommend watchfulness to Perdita, but his presence restrained me. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Don't doubt my return, Marian, however it may be delayed--and fear nothing. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• If any unforeseen accident delayed him, I was to accompany her to the station, and to take special care that she was in time for the train. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• But their enterprise was delayed by the absence of more than one main limb of the confederacy. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The crescent moon, set like a silver signet in the western sky, delayed a little the approach of night. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• My medical enterprise (as Betteredge calls it) must now, inevitably, be delayed until Monday next. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• But the pride of this people cannot bear the thought of it, and therefore it will be delayed. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Certainly it was not worth being delayed by something so sad and ugly and apparently worthless. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.

手打:弗拉德