词汇 | belated |
释义 | belated adjective uk /bɪˈleɪ.tɪd/ us /bɪˈleɪ.t̬ɪd/ coming later than expected: 来迟的 a belated apology迟到的道歉 They did make a belated attempt to reduce the noise.他们确实为减少噪音而作了努力,只不过行动稍迟了一些。 Belated birthday greetings!迟到的生日祝福! Synonyms late tardyformal Late about timephrase be/come/arrive late to the partyidiom behindhand delayed door eleventh last late adopter late developer late in the dayidiom nick not a moment too soonidiom overdue owl shut/close the stable/barn door after the horse has boltedidiom the last minuteidiom unpunctual unpunctuality until all hoursidiom wire Related wordbelatedly belated | American Dictionarybelated adjective us/bɪˈleɪ·t̬ɪd/ coming later than expected: He did make a belated attempt to apologize. belatedlyadverbus/bɪˈleɪ·t̬ɪd·li/ Examples of belatedbelated The adoption of these ideas in archaeology has been a sometimes reluctant, and often belated, adjustment to a transformed social, political and intellectual environment. This was a belated and doomed attempt, given the international situation, to rectify decades of neglect. Postponed at the last minute, its belated debut four years later gave the impression that most of the participants had moved on. When in 1907 a second edition of my book was called for, its theories seemed to me already belated. Belated mobilisation of the ruling party and state apparatus challenged this perception and created great uncertainty. What is more, the ecological advantages for the adoption of tourismresidential functions have only operated in a belated and relatively localised way. This belated recognition does not make the pictures themselves better or worse. Here, the metalepsis not only functions as a belated positing of the cause, as part of the causal-inference; it also constitutes a specific self-relation. His belated recognition of their existence in the later essay is perfunctory, and remains oblivious to their character and significance. The laudatory stance arose from a belated recognition of natural law in the key arguments of independentist agendas. The belated emergence of this early recording is made all the more poignant by its timing. In the next section, we will see a belated effort to resist this trend by movement activists. So this aspect of multimedia is interesting primarily from the technical viewpoint, representing merely a belated attempt by computing to catch up with other technologies. Jenkins has struck a belated and unfashionable blow for commonsense - he deserves to be heard. In the 1970s, massive preharvest burning of cane-fields, introduced to facilitate mechanisation, was as swiftly reversed with the belated realisation of its principal disadvantages. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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