英语词汇“lag”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

lag¹

(lăg)

v. lagged, lag·ging, lags

v.intr.

1. To fail to keep up a pace; straggle: a hiker who lagged behind his companions on the trail.

2. To proceed or develop with comparative slowness: a nation that lags behind its neighbors in economic development.

3. To weaken or slacken; flag: My attention lagged when the lecturer changed subjects.

4. Games To determine the order of play by hitting or shooting a ball toward a mark, as in marbles or billiards, with the player whose ball stops closest to the mark going first.

v.tr.

1. To fail to keep up with (another): One horse lagged the others throughout the race.

2. To proceed or develop at a slower pace than (another): "putting new money into sectors that have lagged the market" (Peter Lynch).

3. Sports In golf, to hit (a putt) so that it stops a short way from the hole and can then be tapped in.

1. An interval between one event or phenomenon and another: "He wondered darkly at how great a lag there was between his thinking and his actions" (Thomas Wolfe).

2. A condition of weakness or slackening: a lag in interest.

[From earlier lag, last person, from Middle English lag-, last (in lagmon, last man), perhaps of Scandinavian origin.]

lagger n.

单词	lag
释义	lag¹ (lăg) v. lagged, lag·ging, lags v.intr. 1. To fail to keep up a pace; straggle: a hiker who lagged behind his companions on the trail. 2. To proceed or develop with comparative slowness: a nation that lags behind its neighbors in economic development. 3. To weaken or slacken; flag: My attention lagged when the lecturer changed subjects. 4. Games To determine the order of play by hitting or shooting a ball toward a mark, as in marbles or billiards, with the player whose ball stops closest to the mark going first. v.tr. 1. To fail to keep up with (another): One horse lagged the others throughout the race. 2. To proceed or develop at a slower pace than (another): "putting new money into sectors that have lagged the market" (Peter Lynch). 3. Sports In golf, to hit (a putt) so that it stops a short way from the hole and can then be tapped in. n. 1. An interval between one event or phenomenon and another: "He wondered darkly at how great a lag there was between his thinking and his actions" (Thomas Wolfe). 2. A condition of weakness or slackening: a lag in interest. [From earlier lag, last person, from Middle English lag-, last (in lagmon, last man), perhaps of Scandinavian origin.] lagger n.
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