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单词 too little, too late
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too little, too late
d. too little, too late and variants: used to convey that an action, measure, etc., is inadequate and has been instigated after the most beneficial moment.
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1847 Morning Post 13 Nov. 6/1 As to the relief supplied by the timid Government, they think it too little and too late.
1881 Engin. & Mining Jrnl. 12 Nov. 319/1 It [sc. Congress] gives too little too late; and it prevents..the efficient and economical use of that late little.
1896 Med. News 1 Feb. 131/1 The usual complaint is that the ambulance-surgeon does too little too late.
1943 Life 2 Aug. 91/1 The haunting cry of ‘too little, too late’ which tragically prefaced the fall of Greece.
1984 M. W. Nicholas Change in Context of Group Therapy iii. 48 Creative..responses that fall flat because they are inadequate—too little, too late.
2005 Independent 18 Jan. 3/2 For many Mozambicans..a Japanese donation last week of 25,000 durable Olyset mosquito nets to fight malaria is too little too late.
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