“…When the delay component vanishes, the underlying SDDEs reduce to the classical stochastic differential equations (SDEs), numerical methods for which have been extensively investigated for the past decades under the global Lipschitz condition (see, e.g., [25], [21], [39]). In the setting of SDEs whose coefficients can be allowed to grow super-linearly, several explicit schemes have been introduced, including tamed EM and Runge-Kutta schemes [18,24,40], balanced EM schemes [46,49] and truncated EM schemes [30,32,33]. Recently, the attention of some researches was attracted to the strong convergence of explicit numerical methods for super-linear SDEs with delay, i.e., SDDEs.…”