延期，推迟：将某事物继续保持在之前的状态或位置。
继续（在职）：将某人继续留任在原职位，延长其任期。
延长上映：将电影等作品的上映时间延长。
hold over //
动词 to defer consideration of or action on 拖延对...的考虑; 拖延对...的作用
名词 an elected official who continues in office after his term has expired 在任期期满后继续办公的被选出官员
intimidate somebody (with a threat)
hold over goods to be sold for the next season
同义词： carry over
keep in a position or state from an earlier period of time
continue a term of office past the normal period of time
延期
(音)延长到下一拍，使(音)从一拍延长到下一拍：
延期
... hold off不接近；拖延；迟疑 hold over将…延迟；期满后继任 hold with同意，赞成；原谅 ...
... hold up举起，拿起；抢劫；阻止，使延误 hold over延期（讨论等）；延长（放映） hold to坚持（说法、看法等） ...
... take ones mind off从.中摆脱出来；不再想 hold over拖延；延期 self自己 ...
... hold off：延迟;使离开 hold over：继续;以..威胁 hold up：抢劫;举起..展示 ...
延期；以…威胁
What she knew about his past gave her a hold over him.
她知道他的过去，所以能够控制他。
One CD-ROM disk can hold over 100,000 pages of text.
一张CD光盘能容纳10万多页的文字资料。
He had ordered his officers to keep an exceptionally firm hold over their men.
他已经命令军官们要对他们的下属保持极为严格的控制。
Moini also complained the Iranian judiciary "continues to hold over despite the recent release of several,including Newsweek correspondent Maziar Bihari and veteran journalist Said Hajjarian.
VOA : standard.2009.10.19
All states, all dominions that have held and do hold empire over man " are either republics or principalities," he says in the opening sentence of chapter 1.
所有国家，所有领地,只要是曾或正让君权凌驾人民之上,要不是共和就是君权“,他在第一章的开头即如是说到。
政治哲学导论课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
The answer is that he can, and actually does, hold property in his fellow, all over the world, in a variety of forms, and has always done so."
但是事实上他可以,他完全有权利,把他的奴隶当作财产,甚至在全世界范围,不管以何种形式,他一直是那么做的
美国内战与重建课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
Drop several seeds over the surface of the pot and cover with a thin layer of vermiculite, a substance that can hold air, water and nutrients.
VOA : special.2009.04.21
The United States had previously expressed dismay over the government's decision to hold the elections without an actual voter list.
VOA : standard.2009.09.07
And, since in the end almost everybody needs them, doctors have a special hold over people.
Now we will we watching what levels can hold over the next few sessions.
Mr Putin has responded by consolidating the state's hold over domestic oil and gas reserves.