Tardy
['tɑːdɪ] or ['tɑrdi]
解釋/意思:
(superl.) Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift.
(superl.) Not being inseason; late; dilatory; -- opposed to prompt; as, to be tardy in one's payments.
(superl.) Unwary; unready.
(superl.) Criminal; guilty.
(v. t.) To make tardy.
校對:鲁珀特
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Slow, snail-like, sluggish, not swift.[2]. Dilatory, slack, late, behindhand, procrastinating, not prompt.
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同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Slow, sluggish, dilatory, behindhand, backward, reluctant, loitering, late
ANT:Quick, rapid, alert, active, prompt, willing, eager, early
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解釋/意思:
adj. slow late sluggish: out of season.—advs. Tardamen′te (mus.) slowly; Tar′dily slowly: reluctantly: late.—n. Tar′diness.—adj. Tar′dy-gait′ed (Shak.) slow-paced.
校對:蒂米
例句/造句/用法:
- Her judgments ought to be correct when they come, for they are often as tardy of delivery as a Lord Chancellor's. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- At last I looked up at the tardy speaker: he was looking eagerly at me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- But the fortune, which had been so tardy in coming, was his only one twelvemonth. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- A benign though tardy Providence blurred my vision and my mind as I sank into unconsciousness across the lifeless body of my only son. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Here I may even cease to repine, and may add my tardy consent to the decree which has taken him from me. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- At least, no friend came forwards immediately, and Mrs. Thornton is not one, I fancy, to wait till tardy kindness comes to find her out. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The tardy day did not appear until he had been on foot two hours, and had traversed a greater part of London from east to west. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
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