late

【发音】

美 /let/ 英 /leɪt/

【翻译】

1. adj.去世不久的

   英释:used about someone who has died fairly recently

【短语】

1. of late : adv. 最近；近来

2. late for : 迟到；来不及…

3. late stage : 末期；后期；晚期

4. late at night : 在深夜；深更半夜

5. late on : 后来；以后；过后

6. late in the day : 在那天稍晚些时候；[口]为时太晚，失时机

7. late night : 深夜

8. stay up late : 熬夜；睡得很晚

9. better late than never : 亡羊补牢；迟做比不做好

10. late autumn : 深秋；晚秋；秋日和

11. sleep late : 睡懒觉

12. late summer : 晚夏

13. late arrival : 迟到

14. late fee : 滞纳金；过时附加费

15. late blight : 晚疫病

16. late show : 午夜场，深夜秀

17. late shipment : 延迟装运；前批装船货物

18. late teens : 少年晚期；20岁左右的青年男女

19. late model : 新型

20. late bloomer : 开花晚的植物；智力发展晚的人

【例句】

1. Billy Hicks, late of this parish

   不久前故去的本教区的比利·希克斯

【真题例句】

1. (2017.6 • CET6 • 第三套 • 阅读理解)...insightful designers have determined the course of late twentieth-century fashion...

2. (2017.6 • CET6 • 第一套 • 阅读理解)...Beginning in the late sixteenth century...

3. (2017.12 • CET6 • 第一套 • 文本题)...Since the late 1970s...

4. (2017.12 • CET6 • 第一套 • 阅读理解)...By the late 19th century...

5. (2017.12 • CET6 • 第一套 • 阅读理解)...many were shipped to Europe in the late 19th century for medicinal us...

6. (2015.6 • CET6 • 第二套 • 阅读理解)...so much so that when the Great Recession hit in late 2007...

7. (2015.6 • CET6 • 第三套 • 写作题)...The late CEO of Apple...

8. (2015.6 • CET6 • 第一套 • 阅读理解)...He points out that the most reproduced works of impressionism today tend to have been bought by five or six wealthy and influential collectors in the late 19th century...

9. (2015.12 • CET6 • 第三套 • 文本题)...Since the implementation of the reform and opening up in the late 1970s...

10. (2015.12 • CET6 • 第二套 • 阅读理解)...By the late 1960s...

【同、近义词】

1. adj.晚的；迟的；已故的；最近的

   recent/current/last/nearest/

2. adv.晚；迟；最近；在晚期

   recently/newly/deep/last/

【同根词】

1. adj

   latish : 稍迟的；稍后的

2. adv

   lately : 近来，不久前

   latish : 稍迟地；稍晚

3. n

   lateness : 晚，迟