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单词 prolong
释义
prolong
verb[T]
uk
/prəˈlɒŋ/us
/prəˈlɑːŋ/
C1
to make something last alongertime:
延长，拖延
We were having such a goodtimethat wedecidedto prolongourstayby anotherweek.我们过得非常愉快，决定再多呆一个星期。
Shechewedeachdeliciousmouthfulasslowlyas she could, prolonging thepleasure.她细嚼慢咽，尽情地享受每一口美味食品。
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prolongation
(Definition ofprolongfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

prolong| American Dictionary

prolong
verb[T]
us
/prəˈlɔŋ/
to make something last alongertime:
They’retryingto prolongtheirlives.

prolonged

adjectiveus
/prəˈlɔŋd/
Grasslands weredamagedby the prolongeddrought.
(Definition ofprolongfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprolong

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Responses are generally elevated and prolonged, but to a lesser degree than with picrotoxin.
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This can be achieved without mortality or morbidity and avoids prolonged evolutions and late deaths.
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But the participants had different cultural sensibilities, tall egos, and wide ambitions, which provoked and prolonged their quarrel.
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In fact, fathers could delay funding their sons' marriages on the grounds that money was unavailable, thereby prolonging their access to the young men's labor.
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No one seriously proposed that the families were mistaken in thinking that ventilator support would be effective in prolonging the patient's biological existence.
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Rural bases enabled workers toprolongtheir strike action in urban areas.
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High birth weight, induction or augmentation of labour, and prolonged first stage, were not associated with adverse outcome in this study.
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Moreover, study of the rd-3 mutation might also lead to clues for therapies toprolongphotoreceptor survival in human disease.
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The goals of medicine practice in general are toprolong, protect and preserve life.
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The present writer has no wish toprolongtheir agony - or their irritation.
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However, to provide sufficient cases for analysis of maternal age and seasonal variations would require a very extensive and prolonged survey which might prove impractical.
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He had therefore prolonged the outward journey farther than was wise, and in addition, the caribou began their southward migration earlier than usual that year.
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Under these conditions the hydropriming pretreatment could be prolonged up to 5 d since none of the seeds germinated by this time.
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Outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis can be prolonged, involve multiple pools and be difficult to control.
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Therefore, it was argued, a process of prolonging independence will have substantial economic advantages, as care remains on lower cost settings.
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