a stay of execution

常见例句

Essentially, the fact that the function refers to a local variable in the outer function grants the variable a stay of execution.
本质上，在外部函数中函数引用局部变量会延缓对该变量的内存的回收…
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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.
在律师会客室，由于一个谎报的电话并不足以作为证据而延迟执行死刑的时间，Lincoln极为恼火。
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.
我作为州长时最困难和孤独的一些时刻是决定是否授予缓期执行，中止执行，或者允许执行继续进行。

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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