1 to extend

2 to spread

1 Yan'an prefecture level city in Shaanxi, communist headquarters during the war

1 to defer

2 to postpone

3 to put off

4 to retard

5 to slow sth down

1 to continue

2 to go on

3 to last

1 to delay

2 to be held up

3 to miss (an opportunity)

4 delay

5 holdup

1 weather permitting (idiom)

1 to stand on tiptoe and crane one's neck (idiom); fig. to yearn for sth

1 lit. penetrate to the marrow (idiom); deeply affected

2 moved to the core

1 to struggle on whilst at death's door (idiom)