deadline

英 ['dedlaɪn] 美['dɛdlaɪn]

复数: deadlines;

deadline 截止日期

死亡日期，引申义截止日期。

deadline: deadline: [19] Originally, in US military parlance, a ‘deadline’ was a literal line drawn round a military prison, which the inmates were not allowed to cross. If they did, they risked being shot. The modern figurative application of the word, to a time-limit (originally for the submission of material for a particular edition of a newspaper), dates from around 1920.
deadline (n.): "time limit," 1920, American English newspaper jargon, from dead (adj.) + line (n.). Perhaps influenced by earlier use (1864) to mean the "do-not-cross" line in Civil War prisons, which figured in the Wirz trial.
And he, the said Wirz, still wickedly pursuing his evil purpose, did establish and cause to be designated within the prison enclosure containing said prisoners a "dead line," being a line around the inner face of the stockade or wall enclosing said prison and about twenty feet distant from and within said stockade; and so established said dead line, which was in many places an imaginary line, in many other places marked by insecure and shifting strips of [boards nailed] upon the tops of small and insecure stakes or posts, he, the said Wirz, instructed the prison guard stationed around the top of said stockade to fire upon and kill any of the prisoners aforesaid who might touch, fall upon, pass over or under across the said "dead line" .... ["Trial of Henry Wirz," Report of the Secretary of War, Oct. 31, 1865]

1. One month before the deadline we see the hollowness of these promises.: 离最后期限只有一个月时，我们认识到了这些许诺都是空头支票。

2. We were not able to meet the deadline because of manufacturing delays.: 因为制造方面的延误，我们没能赶上最后期限。

4. He expected the transfer to go through by today's noon deadline.: 他希望转账在今天中午的最后期限之前完成。

5. The deadline to publish the document is a week tomorrow.: 一周后的明天是公布这份文件的最后期限。