protract

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Let's not protract the debate any further.
我們不要再繼續(xù)爭論下去了。
Their guest did not protract his stay that evening above an hour longer.
那天晚上他們的客人逗留不到一個鐘頭。
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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.
對那些享受議會爭鋒相對的火藥味的人來說也有好消息：維萊特先生的計劃似乎注定會延長這場關(guān)于大學(xué)收費的辯論，而不是解決它。

The alternative is to protract the collective suffering with short-term deficit reductions that only guarantee bigger deficits in the future.
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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.
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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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