2012_05_12 Proroque v. To defer; postpone.推遲,停止的會話。

Word of the Day for Saturday, May 12, 2012
prorogue \proh-ROHG\, verb:
1. To defer; postpone.
2. To discontinue a session of (the British Parliament or a similar body).
It was enough to make him rise from his Governor's throne and tell them, in English instead of Latin just so the fools and dunderheads understood, that he was planning to prorogue Parliament within a week.
 -- Julian Barnes, England, England
What I do hear is that Catulus—he's much better, so they say, he'll be back making a nuisance of himself in Senate and Comitia shortly—is organizing a campaign to prorogue all the current governors next year, leaving this year's praetors with no provinces at all.
 -- Colleen McCullough, Caesar's Women
Prorogue is derived from the Latin word prōrogāre from the roots pro- meaning "advancing towards" and rogāre meaning "to ask."
1。推遲;推遲。
2。停止（英國議會或類似機構）的會話。

這是足以使他將從他的總督的寶座，並告訴他們，在英語，而不是拉丁只是這樣的傻瓜和dunderheads理解，他計劃在一個星期內prorogue議會。
- 朱利安·巴恩斯，英格蘭，英格蘭

我沒有聽到的是，Catulus，他是好多了，所以他們說，他將被回做1對自己在參議院和Comitia不久，正在組織一場以prorogue所有的電流州長明年，離開今年的praetors與的運動滋擾沒有在所有的省份。
- 科琳麥卡洛，凱撒的婦女

prorogue來自根親的含義和rogāre，意思是“向前進”，“問。”從拉丁詞prōrogāre