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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 draw out
 拉長,拖長,延長

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 draw out
      v 1: cause to speak, "Can you draw her out--she is always so
           quiet"
      2: lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer; "We prolonged
         our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The
         meeting was drawn out until midnight" [syn: prolong, protract,
          extend]
      3: make more sociable; "The therapist drew out the shy girl"
      4: deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out
         some interesting linguistic data from the native
         informant" [syn: educe, evoke, elicit, extract]
      5: draw or pull out, usually with some force or effort; also
         used in an abstract sense; "pull weeds"; "extract a bad
         tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from
         the telegram" [syn: extract, pull out, pull, pull
         up, take out]