deadline

英 ['dedla?n] 美['d?dla?n]

CET4TEM4IELTS考研中頻詞常用詞匯

復數:?deadlines;

deadline 截止日期

死亡日期，引申義截止日期。

deadline: deadline: [19] Originally, in US military parlance, a ‘deadline’ was a literal line drawn round a military prison, which the inmates were not allowed to cross. If they did, they risked being shot. The modern figurative application of the word, to a time-limit (originally for the submission of material for a particular edition of a newspaper), dates from around 1920.
deadline (n.): "time limit," 1920, American English newspaper jargon, from dead (adj.) + line (n.). Perhaps influenced by earlier use (1864) to mean the "do-not-cross" line in Civil War prisons, which figured in the Wirz trial.
And he, the said Wirz, still wickedly pursuing his evil purpose, did establish and cause to be designated within the prison enclosure containing said prisoners a "dead line," being a line around the inner face of the stockade or wall enclosing said prison and about twenty feet distant from and within said stockade; and so established said dead line, which was in many places an imaginary line, in many other places marked by insecure and shifting strips of [boards nailed] upon the tops of small and insecure stakes or posts, he, the said Wirz, instructed the prison guard stationed around the top of said stockade to fire upon and kill any of the prisoners aforesaid who might touch, fall upon, pass over or under across the said "dead line" .... ["Trial of Henry Wirz," Report of the Secretary of War, Oct. 31, 1865]

1. One month before the deadline we see the hollowness of these promises.: 離最后期限只有一個月時，我們認識到了這些許諾都是空頭支票。

2. We were not able to meet the deadline because of manufacturing delays.: 因為制造方面的延誤，我們沒能趕上最后期限。

4. He expected the transfer to go through by today's noon deadline.: 他希望轉賬在今天中午的最后期限之前完成。

5. The deadline to publish the document is a week tomorrow.: 一周后的明天是公布這份文件的最后期限。