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    lately查询结果如下:

    音标:['leɪtli]
    基本释义/说明:adv.最近
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    ①[用于否定或疑问];
    Have you seen her lately?
    您最近见过她吗?
    I haven`t been home lately.
    最近我不在家.
    ②[与 only 或 just 连用,表示强调];
    It is only (just) lately that I got your letter.
    最近我才接到你的信.
    最近;不久前;
    -扩展释义
    扩展解释:
    1. 近来,最近
    Lately they’ve been getting into hard rock.
    近来他们一直热衷于演奏硬派摇滚。
    adv.
    近来,最近,不久前
    Lately they’ve been getting into hard rock.
    近来他们一直热衷于演奏硬派摇滚。
    -同义词和反义词

    词性:adverb

    例句1. divorced people have had a bad press lately

    同义词系列2
    反义词系列1
    -lately的不同词性形态

    形容词 变体/同根词

    Near the end of a period of time. || Specifically, near the end of the day. || (usually not used comparatively) Associated with the end of a period. || Not arriving until after an expected time. || Not having had an expected menstrual period. || (not comparable, euphemistic) Deceased, dead: used particularly when speaking of the dead person’s actions while alive. (Often used with “the”; see usage notes.) || Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; departed, or gone out of office. || Recent — relative to the noun it modifies.
    “Better late than never.”
    “Her late husband, Daniel, was much revered by everyone in the community.”
    “The late administration is fighting desperately to regain power.”
    (口语) Quite late
    (chiefly Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Marked by lateness; characteristically late

    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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