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arriving, happening or done after the expected, arranged or usual time 迟到;迟发生;迟做 I'm sorry I'm late. 对不起,我迟到了。 - late for something
She's late for work every day. 她每天上班都迟到。 My flight was an hour late. 我那趟航班晚点了一小时。 We apologize for the late arrival of this train. 我们对本趟列车的晚点表示歉意。 Interest will be charged for late payment. 逾期付款需支付利息。 Because of the cold weather the crops are later this year. 因天气寒冷,农作物今年成熟得较晚。 Here is a late news flash. 现在插播刚刚收到的简讯。 Some children are very late developers. 有些孩子发育滞后。
Extra ExamplesI'm late for work. 我上班迟到了。 He was now three weeks late with his rent. 他的租金已晚交了 3 个星期。 Kevin was fashionably late as always. 和往常一样,凯文又迟到了一会儿。 The train was 45 minutes late. 火车晚点了 45 分钟。 You've left it a bit late to start your homework, haven't you? 你待到晚了才开始做作业,不是吗?
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- feel
- seem
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- extremely
- fairly
- very
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- for
- in
- into
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- an hour, ten minutes, etc. late
- leave it rather, very, etc. late
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near the end of a period of time, a person’s life, etc. 接近末期;在晚年 in the late afternoon 傍晚 in late summer 夏末 young people in their late teens (= aged 18 or 19) 十八九岁的年轻人 She married in her late twenties (= when she was 28 or 29). 她快三十岁时才结婚。 The school was built in the late 1970s. 这所学校建于 20 世纪 70 年代末。 The concert was cancelled at a very late stage. 音乐会在很晚的时候被取消了。 United sealed the win with two late goals. 联队以两个迟来的进球锁定胜局。 Shakespeare's late plays 莎士比亚的晚期戏剧 a late Victorian house 维多利亚晚期的房子
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near the end of the day 近日暮的;近深夜的 Let's go home—it's getting late. 咱们回家吧,时间不早了。 Look at the time—it's much later than I thought. 看看时间吧,比我想象的要晚多了。 What is the latest time I can have an appointment? 最晚的预约时间是几点钟?
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(of a person )人 no longer alive 已故的 She spoke of her late husband with passion. 她说到已故的丈夫时语气里充满了爱意。 The event was organized in memory of the late Stephen Hawking. 这项活动是为了纪念已故的斯蒂芬·霍金而组织的。
Word OriginOld English læt (adjective; also in the sense ‘slow, tardy’), late (adverb), of Germanic origin; related to German lass, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin lassus ‘weary’ and let.
Idioms
be too late
happening after the time when it is possible to do something 为时已晚;已失时机