中文翻译与英英解释

1.(囚犯逾越即格杀勿论的)死线。
2.截止时间。
3.(新闻)原稿截止时间。

the point in time at which something must be completed

例句与用法

I hope we can finish this before the deadline !
我希望我们能在截止日期以前完成。

Please extend the deadline a few days .
请宽限几天。

Eventually, the city government had given him a ten-day deadline .
结果，市政府给他十天的期限。

Yet once the deadline was public our strategy was dead .
但这个期限一旦公开，我们的战略即行告吹。

His boss called him to account for failing to meet the deadline .
老板叫他解释未能按时完成的原因。

He designed the ad-1 skyraider under a 24-hour deadline .
他曾在二十四小时的限期内设计出AD-1型“空中袭击者”。

And what could that deadline be other than the opening of hostilities ?
而这个限期如果不是敌对行动开始的时间又是什么呢？

To accommodate the longer press runs, deadlines for news have been pushed earlier .
为适应这一较长的印刷过程，新闻截稿提前了。

The deadline was met; okinawa was officially turned over to japan on may 15, 1972 .
这个限期没有超过，冲绳在1972年5月15日正式交给了日本。

Gromyko worried about this because he feared that a failure to meet the deadline might sour our relations .
葛罗米柯对此表示担心，他怕到时候实现不了会损害我们之间的关系。