belated meaning in English
adj.
1.落后了的，过了期的；过时的；已经迟了的；旧式的。
2.天已暗了的，(旅客等)天色已晚还在赶路的。
短语和例子
Examples
- With a belated insight he understood suddenly .
他直到此时才觉得心里豁然一亮。 - We shall be belated as to the haymaking up our way .
要不然我们就赶不上晒干草的季节了。 - Make sure that you do n't wait until problems pile up before making a reckoning -- that would be firing belated shots .
切记不要使问题成了堆，才来一个总结，放马后炮。 - Here was i thinking you a new-sprung child of nature; there were you, the belated seedling of an effete aristocracy .
我本来还以为你是大自然的新生儿女哪，谁知道可是奄奄绝息的贵族留下来的一枝日暮途穷的孽子儿孙呢！ - He apologized for his belated note of condolence to the widow of his friend and explained that he had just learned of her husband's untimely death .
他给他朋友的遗孀的慰问信发迟了，为此他深表歉意；但他解释说，他是刚刚得悉她丈夫不幸亡故的消息的。