holdover

单词holdover

基本解释

n.: （在下届政府中）留任的官员
网络: 延期；延缓缴纳；振荡器介面给延伸的缓缴

权威解释

• （在下届政府中）留任的官员:

  a person who keeps a position of power, for example sb who had a particular position in one administration and who still has it in the next

英汉解释

• 〔俚语〕宿醉

• 留级的学生

• 比赛或演出后继续参加的人员

• 任期已满仍然继任的人员

• 残存的人,遗物

• 保存

• 继续参加比赛的运动员

• 残留木

• 推迟

• 残余;遗痕;遗物

• 继任人员;留任者

词性分析

• 复数：holdovers

例句

• He said abandonment of dead babies was a holdover from days of high infant mortality.

  他说，死婴被弃是婴儿死亡率较高时期的遗留。

• Reptiles might also experience REM, and some scientists argue that our mammalian dreaming might be a holdover from our reptilian brains.

  爬行动物可能也会经历这个阶段，而且也有一些科学家坚持认为人类的睡眠还是从爬行动物那里继承过来的。

• The cabinet reshuffle was also significant for the sidelining of a holdover from the military junta.

  内阁改组的重大意义还在于把来自军事执政集团的一名部长排除在外。

• Its vetoing of western efforts to rein in Zimbabwe"s pariah regime is one recent example of a holdover non-aligned mentality.

  最近中国否决了西方国家制裁津巴布韦贱民政权的努力，这是它们仍报有不结盟心态的最新例证。

• George Lucas Adamson served as President from the beginning until 1967, for a total of 35 years including a three-year holdover stint.

  亚当森乔治卢卡斯从一开始就担任主席，直到1967年，任期为35年，其中包括一个为期三年共缴进站。

• The classic is a holdover from 10 years of iPod existence, bearing many similarities to the original iPod.

  iPodclassic是iPod十年来的象征，传承了最初iPod的许多同质的东西。

• Mari Lwyd, an old midwinter custom in Wales, is a holdover from pagan celebrations before Christmas was introduced.

  MariLwyd是冬至时威尔士的古老习俗，是在圣诞节出现之前，异教节日的变相延续。

• Voter registration is organized around a national system for delivering food rations, a holdover from the Saddam Hussein era.

  选民根据食品分配系统组织，这是萨达姆时代留下来的。

• Some religions shun the cards, and the scientific establishment condemns them as symbols of unreason, a holdover from an unenlightened past.

  一些宗教避开它，科学谴责塔罗牌是毫无道理的符号，是过去蒙昧的延续。

• The time limit for lodging a notice of objection and the deadline for applying holdover of provisional tax are also shown.

  评税通知书亦会列明提出反对通知的期限及申请暂缓缴付暂缴税的最后日期。