Word of the Day : April 4, 2023
belated
來遲的;晚出現(xiàn)的
adjective /bih-LAY-tud/ [b??le?t?d]
What It Means
Belated means "happening or coming very late or too late."
Belated 指的是來太晚了的或太遲的。
BELATED in Context
"Skating reached a pop-culture peak in the … 1970s and '80s, before surging back into popularity during the pandemic as the ideal socially-distanced fitness activity. … Still, Angela Tanner, the assistant executive director of the Roller Skating Association International, was enthusiastic about my belated leap onto the bandwagon: 'I think there's this perception that roller skating has exploded, but roller skating never really stopped,' she said." — Christine Emba, The Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2023
“滑冰在 20 世紀(jì) 7、80 年代達(dá)到了流行的頂峰,然后在疫情期間作為保持社交距離的理想的健身活動重新流行起來。……不過,Roller 的助理安吉拉·坦納 (Angela Tanner) 國際滑冰協(xié)會對追趕這股潮流而姍姍來遲的我充滿了熱情:“我認(rèn)為曾有一種看法認(rèn)為輪滑已經(jīng)呈爆增式的增長了,但事實上它卻從未真正停止過,”她說。
Olivia called her friend on his birthday to let him know that a belated gift from her was on its way.
奧利維亞在朋友生日那天打電話告訴她他要送她的一份稍遲的禮物,因為現(xiàn)在它正在路上。
Did You Know?
Don't worry about being late to the party if you don't know the history of belated; you're right on time. Long ago, there was a verb belate, which meant "to make late." From the beginning, belate tended to mostly turn up in the form of its past participle, belated. When used as an adjective, belated originally meant "overtaken by night," as in "belated travelers seeking lodging for the night." This sense did not overstay its welcome; it was eventually overtaken by the "delayed" meaning we know today. As you may have guessed, belate and its descendant belated derive from the adjective late; belate was formed by simply combining the prefix be- ("to cause to be") with late.
如果您不知道belated的歷史,請不要擔(dān)心晚了; 因為你來得正是時候。 很久以前,有一個動詞 belate,意思是“to make late「使……遲到」”。 最初 belate 主要以過去分詞的形式出現(xiàn),belated。 作形容詞時,belated 最初的意思是“overtaken by night「追逐黑夜」”,如“belated travelers seeking lodging for the night.”。 這個意思并沒有受歡迎。 它最終被我們所知道的“delayed「延遲」”的意思所取代。 您可能已經(jīng)猜到,late 及其后代 lated 源自形容詞 late; belate 是通過將前綴 be-(“to cause to be「致……成為」”)與 late 簡單組合而成的。
Name That Synonym
What 5-letter synonym of belated can also mean "moving slowly"?
tardy
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