late是什么意思_late怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time;"late evening"
"late 18th century"
"a late movie"
"took a late flight"
"had a late breakfast"

after the expected or usual time; delayed;"a belated birthday card"
"I"m late for the plane"
"the train is late"
"tardy children are sent to the principal"
"always tardy in making dental appointments"

of the immediate past or just previous to the present time;"a late development"
"their late quarrel"
"his recent trip to Africa"
"in recent months"
"a recent issue of the journal"

having died recently;"her late husband"

of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages;"Late Greek"

at or toward an end or late period or stage of development;"the late phase of feudalism"
"a later symptom of the disease"
"later medical science could have saved the child"

(used especially of persons) of the immediate past;"the former president"
"our late President is still very active"
"the previous occupant of the White House"

Adverb:

later than usual or than expected;"the train arrived late"
"we awoke late"
"the children came late to school"
"notice came so tardily that we almost missed the deadline"
"I belatedly wished her a happy birthday"

to an advanced time;"deep into the night"
"talked late into the evening"

at an advanced age or stage;"she married late"
"undertook the project late in her career"

in the recent past;"he was in Paris recently"
"lately the rules have been enforced"
"as late as yesterday she was fine"
"feeling better of late"
"the spelling was first affected, but latterly the meaning also"

中英词源

late 晚的

来自PIE*led,慢的，疲倦的，来自PIE*le,放开，松开，松软，词源同late,lenient.引申词义慢的，晚的。

late: late: [OE] English and Dutch (with laat) are the only modern European languages to use this word to express the idea of ‘behind time’. It comes from an Indo-European base *lad- ‘slow, weary’, which also produced Latin lassus ‘tired’ (source of English alas [13] and lassitude [16]). In prehistoric Germanic this gave *lataz ‘slow, sluggish’.

Its English descendant late originally meant ‘slow’ (and the related German lass still means ‘lazy’), but although this survived dialectally into the 19th century, in the mainstream language ‘delayed’ had virtually replaced it by the 15th century. From the same ultimate Indo-European source come English lease, let, and liege.
=> alas, lassitude, last, lease, let, liege
late (adj.): Old English læt "occurring after the customary or expected time," originally "slow, sluggish," from Proto-Germanic *lata- (cognates: Old Norse latr "sluggish, lazy," Middle Dutch, Old Saxon lat, German laß "idle, weary," Gothic lats "weary, sluggish, lazy," latjan "to hinder"), from PIE *led- "slow, weary" (cognates: Latin lassus "faint, weary, languid, exhausted," Greek ledein "to be weary"), from root *le- "to let go, slacken" (see let (v.)).

The sense of "deceased" (as in the late Mrs. Smith) is from late 15c., from an adverbial sense of "recently." Of women"s menstrual periods, attested colloquially from 1962. Related: Lateness. As an adverb, from Old English late.

词态变化

比较级 later;
最高级 latest;
名词 lateness;
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权威造句

1. He defected from the party in the late 1970s.: 他在20世纪70年代后期叛出了该党。

2. Stay in bed extra late or get up specially early.: 起床过晚或过早。

3. Most late developers will catch up with their friends.: 大多数身材发育迟缓者都会赶上他们的朋友。

4. Heavy Metal music really arose in the late 60s.: 重金属音乐真正形成于60年代后期。

5. Through some unfortunate accident, the information reached me a day late.: 由于发生了不幸的意外，我知道消息的时候已经晚了一天。

近反义词

adj.

behind

dead

delayed

old

past

slow

adv.

belatedly

formerly

recently

slowly

相似短语

late for 参加…迟到了,未赶上…

of late adv.最近

late in n.在...之末

not late phr. 准时的，守时的，没有迟到，按时的

as late as conj. 迟至...才(只是在...才)

be late for phr. 因……而迟到

late cancer 晚期癌

late crop 晚季作物

late dough 蜡熟后期

late mature 晚成年期

单词分析

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