coming or happening late 迟来的;晚出现的 a belated birthday present 迟来的生日礼物 the government’s belated response to the report on nursery education 政府对幼儿教育报告迟来的回应 This increase in funding suggests a belated acknowledgement of the project’s value. 资金的增加表明对项目价值的认可姗姗来迟。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryBelated is used with these nouns:- congratulations
- realization
- recognition
- …
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘overtaken by darkness’): past participle of obsolete belate ‘delay’ (see be-, late).