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prolong vt.延长；拖延 (1) 我们怎样才能延长短促的人生？(2) 会议可能要延长到夜里，因为今晚有太多问题要解决。(3) 低漏电流有助于延长电池使用寿命。(4) 显然他意在拖延典礼时间。(5) 为了拖延审判,被告装病。(6) 别再让我们著急了--快告诉我们结果吧！ You see the word long in prolong and it's no trick. If you prolong an argument with a sibling, you make it longer than it naturally would be. Prolong always has to do with time. When you stretch your neck or a piece of cloth to make it appear longer, you are elongating, not prolonging, it.

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英 [prə'lɒŋ] 美 [prə'lɔːŋ] (1) How can we endeavor to prolong the brevity of human life?(2) The meeting may be prolonged into the evening because so many problems have to be solved tonight.(3) Low leakage current helps to prolong battery life.(4) Clear evidence of his intent is to prolong the ritual.(5) The defendant feigns illness to prolong the trial.(6) Don't prolong the agony just tell us the result! I don't want to prolong this definition, so I'll keep it short. To prolong is to make something last longer or to stretch it out in time. 1[VERB 动词]延长；拉长；拖长 To prolong something means to make it last longer.   [V n]Mr Chesler said foreign military aid was prolonging the war...切斯勒先生说国外的军事援助拉长了战事。The actual action of the drug can be prolonged significantly.这种药物实际起作用的时间可以大大延长。prolongation...the prolongation of productive human life.人类生育年龄的延长

英语单词	prolong
英美音标	英 [prə'lɒŋ] 美 [prə'lɔːŋ]
中文释义	vt.延长；拖延
英语例句	(1) How can we endeavor to prolong the brevity of human life? (2) The meeting may be prolonged into the evening because so many problems have to be solved tonight. (3) Low leakage current helps to prolong battery life. (4) Clear evidence of his intent is to prolong the ritual. (5) The defendant feigns illness to prolong the trial. (6) Don't prolong the agony just tell us the result!
中文例句	(1) 我们怎样才能延长短促的人生？ (2) 会议可能要延长到夜里，因为今晚有太多问题要解决。 (3) 低漏电流有助于延长电池使用寿命。 (4) 显然他意在拖延典礼时间。 (5) 为了拖延审判,被告装病。 (6) 别再让我们著急了--快告诉我们结果吧！
vocabulary简明	I don't want to prolong this definition, so I'll keep it short. To prolong is to make something last longer or to stretch it out in time.
vocabulary扩展	You see the word long in prolong and it's no trick. If you prolong an argument with a sibling, you make it longer than it naturally would be. Prolong always has to do with time. When you stretch your neck or a piece of cloth to make it appear longer, you are elongating, not prolonging, it.
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词]延长；拉长；拖长 To prolong something means to make it last longer. [V n] Mr Chesler said foreign military aid was prolonging the war... 切斯勒先生说国外的军事援助拉长了战事。 The actual action of the drug can be prolonged significantly. 这种药物实际起作用的时间可以大大延长。 prolongation ...the prolongation of productive human life. 人类生育年龄的延长

Prolong Make Human Life Longer Stretch Time 英