| 词汇 | laggard |
| 释义 | laggard noun[ C ] old-fashioneduk /ˈlæɡ.əd/ us /ˈlæɡ.ɚd/ someone or something that is very slow行动迟缓的人;缓慢移动的事物 Slow and moving slowly (as) slow as molassesidiom at a snail's paceidiom by and byidiom by degreesidiom claw your way (somewhere)idiom float hang around in ones and twosidiom inch by inchidiom infiltrate infiltration jog labour sluggishly sluggishness snail staged steadily struggle wander laggard | Business Englishlaggard noun[ C ] uk /ˈlæɡəd/us a company, organization, etc. that does something later, or improves less quickly, than others: Mexico, long a laggard in financial reform, is at last putting its banks in order. Steel companies are still considered laggards compared to high-tech manufacturers. MARKETING someone who buys a product at a much later date than most people: I confess to being a laggard over this form of tax-free investing. The last remaining laggards have now bought mobile phones. Compare early adopter Examples of laggardlaggard How could an agency so quickly transform from a leading light of public administration into a laggard? Although owners tried to force the laggards to pay their debts, there were two factors working against them. Significant environmental gains look to be achievable simply by moving environmental laggards toward the policy approaches of those at the top of the performance ladder. Those who are slowest to adopt are called laggards. The international uncontrolled leakage and spillover of technological knowledge would benefit the technological strategy of laggard countries, based upon fast imitation and re-engineering. And, like a wartime convoy of ships, the mission is not complete until the slowest (author) arrives (produces his/her text), unless the laggards are abandoned. This type of benchmarking can be seen as leading to a subjective perceived sense of urgency, where countries that have not adopted reforms 'learn' they are laggards. To put it simply, the good performers are being penalised while the laggards are being rewarded. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English But wherever opportunity has arisen we have not been laggard in playing our part. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All that we hear about is legislation to compel the laggards to come up to the standard of the good authorities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Will he bring that home to the laggard authorities? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many railways have adopted this scheme, but there are, unfortunately, other railways that are laggards. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We may have been in the negotiations and the discussions, but we have been the laggards rather than the leaders. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is the laggard with whom we are concerned. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am pressing the laggards to improve their performance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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