deadline

• n. 締め切り、期限

死亡日、延長期限

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.

締め切りまで1ヶ月しかないとき、私たちはこれらの約束がすべて空手形であることを認識しました。

2.We were not able to meet the deadline because of manufacturing delays.

製造上の遅延のため、締め切りに間に合わなかった。

3.We were still right on target for our deadline .

期限までに目標を達成する可能性があります。

4.He expected the transfer to go through by today 's noon deadline .

彼は今日の昼の締め切りまでに振替を完了することを望んでいる。

5.The deadline to publish the document is a week tomorrow.

1週間後の明日がこの文書の公表の締め切りです。