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late-blooming

/leyt-bloo-ming/US // ˈleɪtˈblu mɪŋ //

晚开花的,晚开花,晚开的,迟开花的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or characteristic of a late bloomer: late-blooming brilliance.
    • : late in coming about or showing full development: the country's late-blooming interest in soccer.

Examples

  • I remember H. Jon Benjamin told me it was a way-too-late apology for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

  • At the moment, the only chance I get is when I go do Late Night with Seth Meyers.

  • Are you bi-coastal now, between Portlandia and Late Night with Seth Meyers?

  • Late Wednesday night, French authorities reported that Mourad had surrendered to police, while the two brothers remained at large.

  • As he tried to make his way through a crowd of mourners late last month, he looked preoccupied and even disoriented.

  • The strains of the syren at last woke her uncle, and brought back Miss Hood, who suggested that it was late.

  • The plant as a whole remains green until late in the autumn.

  • But, there was also another which might not be quite so pleasing to Elizabeth, although Louis felt it came too late for him.

  • In 1856 she married Mesdag, who, rather late in life decided to follow the career of a painter.

  • He explains the late departure of the ships for Nueva España, and the consequent mortality reported on one of them.