| 单词 | laggard |
| 释义 | laggard (once / 5890 pages) nadj Hey pokey! Yeah you, Mr. Slow Pants. Quit your dawdling! This is no time to be a laggard, or someone who's always lagging behind. So who was the bigger laggard — the tortoise or the hare? Well that turtle sure was slow moving, but at least he continued at a steady pace. The hare was speedy, but took more time than necessary, goofing around and falling behind. It's a tough call, and one that the literary community has totally been dragging their feet on. What a bunch of laggards! WORD FAMILYlaggard: laggardly, laggards USAGE EXAMPLESHere's a look at some of the biggest winners, losers and laggards in financial markets as 2016 ends. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) “New York is a laggard in design-build,” said Mitchell L. Moss, director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at New York University. New York Times(Dec 25, 2016) Worse, liberalization in the financial realm was supposed to spur reforms in the real economy, particularly the laggard state-owned industrial sector. Wall Street Journal(Dec 13, 2016) 1n someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind Syn|Hypo|Hyper dawdler, drone, lagger, poke, trailer lingerer, loiterer someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place plodder, slowcoach, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mudsomeone who moves slowly potterer, putterera person who putters about straggler, strayersomeone who strays or falls behind bum, do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer person who does no work 2adj wasting time Syn dilatory, pokey, poky slow not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time |
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