buy time

基本解释

Commission members are therefore expected to press for tax reform or new revenue sources that might buy time for compromise.
預計“削減赤字委員會”委員將被迫尋求稅收改革或新的收入來源，以此爭取時間找到折中方案。
Both companies aim to buy time for their weaker customers, on the hope they will still need the planes when economic conditions improve.
兩家公司都想爲狀況不佳的客戶爭取時間，寄希望於經濟好轉之後它們仍將需要之前訂購的飛機。
Sara realizes that one of the bars she's cuffed to is loose, and to buy time, begins taunting T-Bag, telling him that his medical records at Fox River indicate that he's impotent.
莎拉發現她被銬著的其中一根拉門把是松動的，爲了爭取時間，他開始奚落西奧多，告訴他說，根據在狐狸河毉院的毉療紀錄，他是性無能。

A Western diplomat close to the EU meeting in Harare told VOA it is clear that Mr.Mugabe is blocking full compliance with the political agreement in order to buy time to rebuild ZANU-PF, which has been weakened by internal quarrels and a loss of popular support, even in its traditional strongholds.
spent a lot of time and effort kind of figuring out what is it that people will want to buy next week.
他花費了很多的時間和精力來研究,人們想要在下個星期買進什麽。
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just exactly a year ago--saying, the best time in at least ten years to buy a house.
在電眡上說，一個持續10年的買房子的好時候。
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To buy time, Miller orchestrated a massive restructuring--selling assets, issuing stock and refinancing bank debt.
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