By installing computers in their schools and libraries, the community leaders demonstrated that they were determined not to lag behind in technology.

通过在他们的学校和图书馆安装计算机，这些社区的领导们表明他们决心不在技术上落后。

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She said girls outperforming boys in communication and creativity was of particular concern and boys should be encouraged to develop these skills so they did not lag behind in school or later life.

她说，值得特别关注的是女孩在交流和创造力方面的表现要优于男孩。因此，我们应该鼓励男孩提高这些技能，这样他们在学校或日后生活中才不会落后。

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Any actions that stick to dogma, ignore practice, or overstep or lag behind real life will not succeed.

任何固守本本、漠视实践、超越或落后于实际生活的做法都不会得到成功。

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Once again it appears that women are penalized in ways that men are not for making the choice to have children and that their salaries continue to lag behind those of men.

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But while a focus on reading tends to highlight the relative under-performance of boys, they do not lag behind in every respect.

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This does not please personal-injury lawyers, who argue that fixed costs are likely to lag behind the pace of legal inflation (that is precisely the point, of course).

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