The heavy debts due British merchants in America were not only unpaid but postponed into an indefinite future.

在美国的英国商人欠下的沉重债务不仅没有偿还，而且被推迟到无限期的未来。

I cannot precisely define what they expected, but it was something pleasant: not perhaps that day or that month, but at an indefinite future period.

我无法准确定义他们的期望，但这是令人愉快的事情：也许不是那天或那个月，而是在不确定的未来时期。