It didn't say much for their efficiency that the order arrived a week late.
订货晚到了一个星期，可见他们的效率难以恭维。
The timetable for trains is so tight that if one is a bit late, the domino effect is enormous.
列车时刻表安排得很紧凑，所以，如果一列火车晚点一会儿，就会引起巨大的多米诺效应。
A spokesman declined to elaborate on a statement released late yesterday.
发言人拒绝对昨天晚些时候发表的一份声明作出更多说明。
They arrived late due to a motorway holdup.
因为高速公路上堵车，他们迟到了。
Isabel put her magazine down and said in a neutral voice, "You're very late, darling."
伊莎贝尔放下她的杂志,以不动声色的口吻说，“亲爱的，你太晚了”。
In the late 17th century, a tax was introduced on malt, the basic ingredient of beer.
在17世纪晚期，麦芽税被引入。麦芽是啤酒的基本成分。
I had never ridden on a motor-cycle before. But it was too late to chicken out.
在那以前我从未骑过摩托车。但当时已来不及临阵脱逃。
Don't get in a strop —I'm only a few minutes late.
别生气—我不过晚了几分钟。
Arsenal scored three late goals in a storming finish.
阿森纳队后来以三个进球轰轰烈烈地完成了比赛。
Chin-Hui was a late-season call-up to the majors.
清辉在赛季后期被选入美国职业棒球大联盟。
It is possible to have a microeconomic success and a macroeconomic failure, as Britain did in the late eighties.
微观经济的成功和宏观经济的失败是可能共存的，就像80年代末的英国那样。
United lost 5–2, salvaging a little pride with two late goals.
联队以2:5失利，只靠后来两次进球挽回了一点面子。
Have you noticed that you can leave on a flight an hour late but still arrive on time?
你有没有注意到，你的航班延迟一小时起飞，却仍能准时到达？
Unlike in the Americas, where metallurgy was a very late and limited development, Africans had iron from a relatively early date.
美洲的冶金学发展非常晚，而且发展有限。与之不同的是，非洲人在更早的时候就有了铁。
In the late 1930s, a movement to ban the drug marijuana began to gather force, resulting in the eventual banning of the cultivation.
20世纪30年代末，一场禁止毒品大麻的运动开始集结力量，最终导致大麻种植被禁止。
Forces in Japan was informed of the August incident in late October, a public information officer said.
一位公共信息官员说，日本军队是在10月底得知8月的事件的。
Radio is today a very different business than in the late 1940s and a much larger one.
今天的广播行业与20世纪40年代末的相比大有不同，规模要大得多。
In late December 2013, a video created by him was his first experience to prevent electric motorcar from being stolen.
2013年12月底，他制作了一段视频，这是他第一次体验防止电动汽车被盗。
Bad habits such as smoking, staying up late and sitting for a long time can damage people's health.
诸如吸烟、熬夜和久坐等坏习惯会破坏人的健康。
He uses his place as a kind of salon for late-night art shows and concerts.
他把他的住所作为一个类似午夜艺术展和音乐会的沙龙。
As late as the 1950s, a large percentage of the American public used mass transit.
直到20世纪50年代，大部分美国公众还在使用公共交通工具。
Professionalism has turned the acquisition of a doctoral degree into a prerequisite for a successful academic career: as late as 1969 a third of American professors did not possess one.
专业主义已经把获得博士学位变成了学术生涯成功的先决条件：直到1969年，三分之一的美国教授没有博士学位。
We come upon a small caravan camper with its door open to a late-middle-aged Scottish couple, sitting at a folding table, taking tea and biscuits.
我们遇到了一辆小型的有篷露营车，车门开着，正对着一对中年的苏格兰夫妇，他们正坐在折叠桌旁，喝着茶吃着饼干。
If you tell a friend you're going to their house for dinner, it's OK if you arrive a bit late.
如果你告诉一个朋友你要去他们家吃晚饭，那么你迟到一点的话也没关系。
My idea was to photograph this beautiful and very unique coastline, before it's too late—as a last witnesses.
我的想法是，在为时已晚之前，作为最后的目击者，将这条美丽而独特的海岸线拍摄下来。
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