Protracts
v. <贬>延长, 拖延（某事物）( protract的第三人称单数 )
🗣️ 情景例句
No chance!
不可能。
Everything new is fine.
新事物总是美好的。
But here we come up against the most difficult of all obstacles to contact with people on other planets ----the astronomical distances which separate us.
然而，在和外星人联系中我们遇到的最大困难是分隔我们的天文距离。