| 单词 | tardy |
| 释义 | tar·dy I. 1. a. < she could not wait for the tardy operations of her ambassadress — W.M.Thackeray > < where the vulgar dialects were tardiest in taking distinctive form — H.O.Taylor > < ten years is a long … courtship, and she summons courage to spur her tardy swain — Seamus Kelly > b. < is often an hour tardy at school > < tardy in recognizing that the barbiturates are just as dangerous as the opiates — D.W.Maurer & V.H.Vogel > < the intellectuals were somewhat tardy … what they discovered was what the public everywhere had long known — John Mason Brown > 2. obsolete Synonyms: < tardy arrivals at the play slowing down the first act > < a number of tardy children rebuked by the principal > late centers attention on the fact of not arriving on time; it may or may not imply blame < late for school > < persons coming late were seated in the balcony > < docked for being late > behindhand applies to the situation of persons who have fallen into arrears or whose development, progress or action is slower than normal < behindhand in his mortgage payments > < in a big house … one is always behindhand. The days aren't long enough — George Moore > overdue may refer to what has been due and left unpaid or undone, to what has been expected or scheduled but lacks arrival or completion, or to what might logically or suitably have occurred or appeared a long time before < an overdue bill > < an overdue library book > < small chance of search planes even though we were a week overdue — L.A.Viereck > < the valuable work of this branch of chemistry received long overdue recognition — J.H.Kuney > < legislative reforms are long overdue > II. archaic < too swift arrives as tardy as too slow — Shakespeare > III. |
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