late
美 [leɪt]
英 [leɪt] 
- adj.晚;迟到;晚期;晚到
- adv.晚;晚期;迟;最近
- 网络迟的;晚的;已故的
词形变化
比较级:later 最高级:latest 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
1. | [obn] 接近末期的;晚年的near the end of a period of time, a person's life, etc. |
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| She married in her late twenties(= when she was 28 or 29) . 她快三十岁时才结婚。 |
| In later life he started playing golf. 他晚年开始打高尔夫球。 |
| The school was built in the late 1970s. 这所学校建于 20 世纪 70 年代末。 |
2. | [nubn] 迟到;迟发生;迟做arriving, happening or done after the expected, arranged or usual time |
| I'm sorry I'm late. 对不起,我迟到了。 |
| 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。 |
| 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。 |
| Interest will be charged for late payment. 逾期付款需支付利息。 |
| Here is a late news flash. 现在插播刚刚收到的新闻。 |
3. | 近日暮的;近深夜的near the end of the day |
| 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 are you doing up at this late hour ? 深更半夜的,你还没睡,在做什么? |
| What is the latest time I can have an appointment? 最晚的预约时间是几点钟? |
| I've had too many late nights recently(= when I've gone to bed very late) . 我最近熬夜太多。 |
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| the late Paul Newman 已故的保罗 ) 纽曼 |
1. | 迟;晚after the expected, arranged or usual time |
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| Can I stay up late tonight? 我今晚可以晚点儿睡吗? |
| She has to work late tomorrow. 她明天得熬夜工作。 |
| The big stores are open later on Thursdays. 每逢星期四大商店营业时间延长。 |
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| The birthday card arrived three days late. 生日贺卡晚到了三天。 |
2. | 接近末期;在晚年near the end of a period of time, a person's life, etc. |
| late in March/the afternoon 三月下旬;傍晚 |
| It happened late last year. 那事发生在去年年底。 |
| As late as(= as recently as) the 1950s, tuberculosis was still a fatal illness. 直到 20 世纪 50 年代,结核病仍然是一种致命的疾病。 |
| He became an author late in life . 他到晚年成为作家。 |
3. | 临近日暮;接近午夜near the end of the day |
| There's a good film on late. 深夜有一场好电影。 |
| Late that evening, there was a knock at the door. 那天深夜,有人敲门。 |
| Share prices fell early on but rose again late in the day. 那天股票价格起先跌了,临近收盘时又涨了。 |
习惯用语
be too late
为时已晚;已失时机happening after the time when it is possible to do sth
| It's too late to save her now. 现在来拯救她的生命已为时太晚。 |
| Buy now before it's too late. 欲购从速,勿失良机。 |
better late than never
迟到总比不到好;迟发生总比不发生强used especially when you, or sb else, arrive/arrives late, or when sth such as success happens late, to say that this is better than not coming or happening at all
late in the day
为时已晚;已失时机after the time when an action could be successful
| He started working hard much too late in the day─he couldn't possibly catch up. 他太晚才开始努力工作,不可能赶上了。 |
late of…
直至最近工作(或居住)的地方until recently working or living in the place mentioned
| Professor Jones, late of Oxford University 直到不久前还在牛津大学任教的琼斯教授 |
of late
| I haven't seen him of late. 我最近没见过他。 |
too late
过迟;太晚after the time when it is possible to do sth successfully
| She's left it too late to apply for the job. 她申请那份工作已为时太晚。 |
| I realized the truth too late. 我太晚才知道真相。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
I know it is quite late for writting email, but I wanted to tell you I had special thinking for you before sleeping.
我知道现在发电子邮件已经很晚了,但我想告诉你,
I could have asked him to take the books with him; it's too late now, though.
我本来可以请他把书带走的,不过现在太迟了。
These little miracle makers allow you to pump your milk into a bottle and let your husband take a late-night feeding now and then.
这种小而神奇的器物可以让你把乳汁抽到一个小瓶子里,可以让你的丈夫在深夜偶尔去喂养下婴儿。
The company's cash burn is a matter of grave concern, and the lack of any late-stage or approved product adds to the company's woes.
公司的资金消耗是一个严肃的值得关注的问题,而且缺乏任何后期研究和核准的产品给公司的带来了更加严重的伤痛。
I see that you were up very late last night and I think you just finish your work and then write to me.
我看到你了很晚了,昨晚,我认为你刚刚完成你的工作,然后写信给我。
This could not be confirmed, but what was certain was that his efforts were too little, too late for some of his sons.
这则消息还没有被证实,但是可以确定的是他的努力对他的几个儿子来说已经太迟太微小了。
Besides, I don't like the idea of her being down at the office, this late at night, all by herself.
另外,我不喜欢她在办公室里面,一个人呆到这么晚。
Pennant was late twice last week. He said one delay was because he had been stopped by police for speeding on the motorway.
彭南特上周迟到两次,一次他借口说他由于超车在交警停在高速公路上。
Doctors are switching some patients to older bare metal stents that do not seems to have the same late-clotting risk.
医生也开始重新把目光转向没有血栓形成风险的金属裸支架。
Obama took advantage of his strong fundraising efforts to pay for a half-hour slot on several major television networks, late Wednesday.
奥巴马利用了他募款的优势,于星期三晚间在几家主要电视频道上播出半个小时的影片。
Go there once walked the streets, saw a look without a trace the long road, late at night where the desolate, there is no trace of my walk.
到那曾经走过的大街上,看到一望无迹长长的大路,深夜那儿冷冷清清,毫无我走过的痕迹。
As of late the Tao has helped to orchestrate the pull of these cycles to benefit ascending humans upon the surface of the earth.
最近,道已经帮助安排了这些周期的引力,以有益于地表的提升人类。
Late applications must be submitted at least four months prior to the beginning of a term and will beeviewed.
迟到的申请书必须在新学期开始前的四个月前呈交上来,以便进行核查。
Col trane was something of a late and hesitant starter.
柯川有点大器晚成,起步晚且犹豫不决。
The days are long and the nights are short, for the sun gets up early and goes to bed late in sunny June.
白天长了,夜晚短了;在明媚的六月里,太阳早早起床,很晚才入睡。
Luckily for me she did not discover where ike pt my late father's Files which contained important documents.
幸运的是我,她没有发现我一直在我的已故父亲的文件载有重要的文件。
One unlikely answer may lie in an object that has become something of an emblem of our late capitalist economy: the sea container.
有个貌似不太可能的答案已成为现实,并且像是我们这个后资本主义经济的徽章似的伫立在人们面前。
A new XJ sedan is also being readied to complement the company's XF sedan, and should be ready to hit the market in late 2010.
一种新的抗菌肽轿车也正在准备向补充公司的芳轿车,并应准备上市到2010年年底。
Nevertheless, he continued to vacillate, like Hamlet, in the execution of his filial obligation to his late father's request.
不过,他就象哈姆雷特,在为了尽孝而完成他过世的父亲的要求时犹豫起来。
Do not be discouraged by set backs and delay tactics used by the dark hats, as their days in power are numbered at this late stage.
不要因为挫折沮丧,最后一段时间黑暗势力的日子屈指可数,他们用延迟作为一项战术。
I feel so lucky at being in Washington, that I guess I work off my guilt with the late hours.
我觉得自己呆在华盛顿太幸运了,晚上加加班也许是为了消除自己的犯罪感吧。
Many experiments in the late 1800s had been designed to detect an ether in which light might move.
十九世纪后期,人们曾经设计了许多实验,想探测出某种能够让光在其中运动的以太。
To you brother Carl I give special thanks for the attachment you have displayed toward me of late.
卡尔弟弟,你最近对我表现的深情,我感激不尽。
James left almost immediately after; he was late as it was.
詹姆士紧接着也走了;就这样他已经晚了。
The middle-class woman of the late eighteenth century had good reason to accept and magnify these values of sensibility and passionate love.
十八世纪后期的中产阶级妇女完全有理由接受并赞美这些感情和炽热爱情价值。
Is it too late to stop a river of blood from flowing between the British and Italian peoples?
制止在英、意两国人民之间造成血流成河的局面,是否为时已晚呢?
Five Russian armies in the central sector rolled into Poland, reached the Vistula River in late July.
在中部战场,五支俄军滚滚涌进波兰,于7月末到达维斯杜拉河。
He ran fast that he might not be late.
他快跑以求不迟到。
Their whole crop had been blasted by a late frost.
一场晚霜把他们的庄稼全毁了。
The horses were still floundering through the mud an hour late.
一小时后,马还在泥泞里吃力地行走。
It was neither too early for actors, nor yet too late to have lost one of such charm and fame, she had calculated.
她考虑过,现在对演员来说既不会太早,对她来说也不会太迟使她错过这么一个仪表堂堂、大名鼎鼎的人物。
It was now too late to destroy the convoy, which had turned back and scattered in all directions among numerous islands.
现在要消灭这次运兵船队为时已晚。因为它已折回,并且分头向星罗棋布的岛屿散开了。
She radiotelephoned her mother to say she would be late.
她给母亲打无线电话说她要晚到。
Really, it was too bad of you to be so late.
你来得这么晚实在不像话。
The train was three hours late and Joe came into our place to loaf about and to wait for its arrival.
火车晚点了三小时,乔就来我们饭馆呆一会儿,等候火车的到来。
He was the only son of a late professor of chemistry.
他是一个已故的化学教授的独子。
When the Governments of France and Britain realized the terrible transformation which had taken place, it was too late.
当法英两国政府发现这种可怕的变化时,已经太迟了。
Late in the Alexandrian period, Pappus' additions to geometry came as a sort of anticlimax.
在亚历山大里亚晚期出现的Pappus对几何学的工作是高潮后的一种低潮。
Come on, or we shall be late for the fun, and I want to see it, miracle or not.
走吧,要不然咱们就看不上这场好戏了。我是真想看一不管它算不算奇迹。
In late June 1942 the press of the United States and Great Britain was echoing the Russian cry for a "second front" .
1942年6月下旬,美英响应苏俄的呼吁,“开辟第二战场”。
General Clark and I, with a few assistants, left Washington in late June 1942.
克拉克将军和我及几位助理员,在一九四二年六月下旬,离开华盛顿。
It has certainly been more attended to of late years, and many treatises have been published on the subject.
近年来人们对于这个问题,的确比以前要注意,出版的书籍亦很多。
We got back to the train in time for a very late dinner.
我们回到车上时,恰好赶上一顿开得很晚的晚餐。
Sometimes, when it was really necessary to get a job done by a certain time, they had to work late, perhaps till eight or nine o'clock.
有时候干一件真正需要限期完成的活,他们只得干到很晚,说不定直到晚上八、九点钟才收工。
They revenged their late lord upon his enemy.
他们为先主向其敌人报仇。
Among other things opportunity had of late years been denied her of learning to be undignified, for she lived lonely.
不说别的,她近年以来就没有走向卑陋的机会,因为她老离群索居。
The reasons for late delivery vary from country to country, but some are often inherent in public sector marketing itself.
延误原因因国而异,但有些问题往往是公共经销本身所固有的。
She was chilled by the late October air coming through the open window.
她被从敞开的窗子吹进的10月末的空气凉透了。
It's such a bore having to stay late this evening.
今天晚上非得熬夜,真是烦人。
We apologize for the late arrival of the train.
我们为火车误点表示歉意。
The late Professor Robert Oppenheimer was one of the members of the Center's Scientific Council.
已故的罗伯特•奥本海默教授曾是研究中心科学委员会的会员。
in Permian, it had developed and formed a typical Cathaysian flora and was an important part of late Paleozoic Cathaysian flora.
二叠纪时已发展为典型的华夏植物区系的性质,是晚古生代华夏植物区系的重要组成部分。
It is unusual for her to be late.
她是很少迟到的。
I wonder if it is possible for me to come in a bit late tomorrow?
我明天上班要晚到一会儿,不知行不行?
'It is too late, 'she said, her voice hard and her eyes shining unnaturally.
“太晚了,”她说。她声音有些刺耳,眼睛的光芒也是躲躲闪闪的。
The barman looked at him did not answer. It was too late at night for conversation.
酒吧招待看看他,,没有答腔,夜深了,不便谈话。
he took her out in a buggy riding in the late afternoon without a chaperone and then, and then he refused to marry her!
傍晚,他坐四轮车带她外出。连个女伴都没有。但他却不肯娶她。
We got to the stadium very late, just a few minutes before kick-off.
我们抵达球场的时候已经很迟了,几分钟后裁判便吹响开球哨音。
Tom: Claire called and said the report was late. She was counting on us.
汤姆︰克莱儿打电话来说报告来不及了。她全指望我们。
Trains from Shanghai may be up to ten minutes late, on account of repairs to the track.
由于修轨,由于修轨,从上海来的火车可能晚十分钟到达.车可能晚十分钟到达。
He bangs on the front window, trying to get the man's attention but it's too late.
他彭斯在前面的窗户,试图让这个男人的注意,可是已经太晚了。
He did not enjoy watching TV, but he likes to watch to see the computer and always late .
他不喜欢看电视,但他很喜欢看电脑并且总是看到很晚。
As an Indian, he knew he had to work a bit harder but was always encouraged by his late mother to go out and work as much as he could.
作为一个印度人,阿罗拉知道他必须要比别人更加努力,而在他已故母亲的激励下,他总是尽最大的努力多做些活。
and by 1854 a great painter, Delacroix , graciously declared how much he regretted that such an admirable invention came so late.
1854年,大画家德拉克洛西大度地宣称,这样一项令人敬畏的发明,竟然如此姗姗来迟。
Lenovo's focus on China, which will make it a late-comer in other markets, is expected to be the group's biggest strength.
联想对中国市场的专注将使其进入其它市场的时间较晚,但这也有望成为其最大的优势。
But when I saw the door of the Humvee with some shrapnel and bullet marks in it I told him let's go, we'll be late.
但当我看到悍马车门上弹片和枪弹的累累痕迹时,我对他说,走吧,我们就要迟到了。
The manuscript of that late writer is now in the possession of her descendants.
该已故女作家的手稿,现由后人保存。
The non-native characteristic took a dominant place in the initiating stage of new style education in the late Qing Dynasty.
在清末新式教育创始阶段,外来性占主导地位。
I said I might be late for dinner but he made such a fuss that I thought I'd better arrive on time.
我说我可能晚餐要晚些到,但他那小题大做的样子使我觉得最好还是准时到。
For a year in the late 1960s, she had no idea that two of her missing children had perished in central Vietnam while fighting U. S. troops.
对于一个在60年代末的一年,她没有失踪,她的两个孩子已在越南中部的美军作战时丧生的想法。
He is not allowed to stay out late.
他不可以在外待到很晚。
I was kept at the office for two hours and that's why I'm late.
我在办公室给耽搁了两个小时,所以我迟到了。
Actually, I'll be a bit late home.
说真的,我回家会晚一点。
In Paris the sons of Charlemagne quarreled among themselves as to how their father's late empire should be ruled.
查理曼的儿子们正在巴黎为如何统治他们父亲遗下的帝国而争吵。
The boss booted her out for coming late.
老板因她迟到把她解雇了。
The oothecae of this species were abundant in late May and June.
这个物种的卵囊在5月下旬至6月最多。
President Roosevelt in late 1934 and early 1935 launched a program frankly designed to provide larger security and incomes for the masses.
1934年底与1935年初,罗斯福总统提出一个显然是为了给群众提供更多保障和收入的计划。
Once again , the train was late.
火车又晚点了。
I cautioned him not to be late.
我提醒他不要迟到。
I called the office to tell them I'd be late.
我给办公室打电话说我可能晚到一会儿。