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belatedly

/bih-ley-tid/US // bɪˈleɪ tɪd //UK // (bɪˈleɪtɪd) //

迟来的,姗姗来迟,姗姗来迟的,迟到的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time: belated birthday greetings.
    • : late, delayed, or detained: We started the meeting without the belated representative.
    • : Archaic. obsolete; old-fashioned; out-of-date: a belated view of world politics.
    • : Archaic. overtaken by darkness or night.

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Examples

  • The Pac-12’s belated start meant its playoff hopes were going to ride heavily on whether somebody — and “somebody” was assumed to be Oregon — would bash everyone in its way.

  • Speaking with reporters Thursday, he did not rule out taking action against the General Services Administration at a future date to force a belated recognition of his presidential transition.

  • Apple’s belated embrace of the technology will go a long way toward taking it mainstream.

  • Because of its sensitivity to controversy, the Nobel committee has a habit of awarding belated prizes … sometimes decades late.

  • To skywatchers, though, chiaroscuro was just an extremely belated recognition of a natural truth that their predecessors had discovered millennia earlier.

  • He appeared to understand however belatedly that he was in the presence of another kind of greatness.

  • Marrero himself was hardly a “cup of coffee” relic or a minor character belatedly retrieved from the dustbin of baseball history.

  • The closings continued for three more days, ending only when the executive director, Patrick Foye, belatedly stepped in.

  • Boston, however, has sadly and belatedly proven him right, at least to a degree.

  • His absence left tongues wagging, and Romney showed up at a march he belatedly called himself a week later.

  • Belatedly, Ruiz made radio contact with the doughnut, which was still well within range.

  • The rifle came up—and dropped back again as Alexander belatedly pretended that she had not seen him.

  • Belatedly, Brad recalled that the Cub leader and Mr. Holloway had expected to make a brief trip that morning to the mainland.

  • "There's a lot uh cake you boys might just as well eat up," the Countess called belatedly.

  • Belatedly, he knew that the cutout which he held dangling, resembled Pillbot in outline.