a stay of execution

常見(jiàn)例句

Essentially, the fact that the function refers to a local variable in the outer function grants the variable a stay of execution.
本質(zhì)上，在外部函數(shù)中函數(shù)引用局部變量會(huì)延緩對(duì)該變量的內(nèi)存的回收…
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Back in the attorney-client visitation room, Lincoln is livid that evidence of a fake phone call isn’t enough for a stay of execution.
在律師會(huì)客室，由于一個(gè)謊報(bào)的電話(huà)并不足以作為證據(jù)而延遲執(zhí)行死刑的時(shí)間，Lincoln極為惱火。
Some of my most difficult and lonely moments as governor were deciding whether to grant a stay of execution, to halt an execution, or to allow the execution to proceed.
我作為州長(zhǎng)時(shí)最困難和孤獨(dú)的一些時(shí)刻是決定是否授予緩期執(zhí)行，中止執(zhí)行，或者允許執(zhí)行繼續(xù)進(jìn)行。

You can think of this as a stay of execution for the Greek authorities.
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But only last month the owner had won a stay of execution until the end of the summer season.
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