Deliveries of mail could bedelayed because of cost-cutting.
由于削减成本，邮件的递送可能会延迟。
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If they do not, their membership could bedelayed until 2008.
如果他们不这样做，他们的成员资格将被推迟到2008年。
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Educators may fear that children hearing two languages will become permanently confused and thus their language development will bedelayed; this concern is not documented in the literature.