延缓: to defer, to postpone, to put off, to retard, to slow sth down...
放学: to dismiss students at the end of the school day...
吩咐: to tell, to instruct, to command...
总是: always...
自理: to take care of oneself, to provide for oneself...
同胞: born of the same parents, sibling, fellow citizen, compatriot...