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    late查询结果如下:

    音标:[leɪt]
    名词复数:lates 词频:高频常用词
    比较级:later 最高级:latest
    基本释义/说明:adj.迟的;晚的
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    a.
    ①迟的;迟到的;
    a late comer
    迟到的人.
    be late for work(the office, school)
    迟上班(上办公室,上学).
    The train was ten minutes late.
    火车误点(迟到)十分钟.
    ②(时,日,季节等)晚的,晚期的;
    a late dinner
    晚开的午餐.
    a late food store
    营业关门晚的食品店.
    the late rice
    晚稻.
    a late worker
    工作很晚的人.
    a week later
    一星期以后.
    at a late hour
    在深夜(在很晚的时刻).
    in late spring
    在暮春.
    in the late eighties
    在八十年代后期.
    in one`s late years
    在晚年时期.
    cater to (the needs of) late customers
    满足晚来顾客的需要.
    ③新近的,最近的;
    the late floods
    最近的大水.
    the latest fashions
    最新式样.
    the latest news
    最新消息.
    the very latesdt improvements
    极新近的改进.
    the late changes in the government
    政府的近来变化.
    Miss Jane`s latest novel will be her last.
    简小姐新近出版的小说将是她最后的一部了.
    ④前任的,才卸任的;
    the late government
    前任政府.
    the late president (prime minister)
    前任总统(首相或总理).
    ⑤已故的,才去世的;
    the late Dr Johnson
    已故的约翰逊博士.
    her late husband
    她已故的丈夫,她的先夫(系指寡妇而言).
    ad.
    ①迟;
    come late
    迟来:
    arrive home late
    到家迟.
    get up late
    迟起.
    go to bed late
    迟睡.
    marry late in life
    结婚迟.
    The bus arrived five minutes late.
    该公共汽车迟到五分钟.
    ②晚,晚期;
    two years later
    两年后.
    late in 1940`s
    在二十世纪四十年代末期.
    sit (stay) up late
    坐到深夜(到深夜不睡).
    the bush was planted late in the season.
    灌木是在这个季节末种植的.
    ③最近,不久前;
    late a young worker and now a student
    不久前为青年工人,现在是大学生.
    -同义词和反义词

    词性:adjective

    例句1. the train was one and a half hours late

    同义词系列1
    反义词系列1
    -late的不同词性形态

    形容词 变体/同根词

    late的形容词比较级形式
    “The canceled meeting will now be held at a later date.”
    “The company’s latest release features the use of later technology.”

    名词 变体/同根词

    The property of being late.
    “The only problem in trying to photograph them was the lateness of the hour.”
    “If invited to someone’s house for dinner, lateness is seen as a discourtesy.”
    “The lateness of the season necessitated a hurried construction of a wintering post.”
    Any of various large fish of the genus Lates, especially the Nile perch, Lates niloticus and the barramundi, Lates calcarifer.
    “Because the ITV network is 24 hours a day, the whole thing is based on shift work so we work a series of earlies, lates and nights.”
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