音标:[leit] ; 柯林斯词典等级:5 级; 牛津三千核心词汇;
a. 迟的, 晚的, 已故的
adv. 很晚, 很迟, 晚
a. being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time
s. of the immediate past or just previous to the present time
s. having died recently
a. of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages
词型变化:形容词比较级 : later ; 形容词最高级 : latest
考试类型:[中考/高考]
词性分布:
形容词81%
副词19%

late的用法和样例:

例句

用作形容词(adj.)
  1. I'm afraid I may be a little late.恐怕我可能稍晚一点。
  2. The train was 10 minutes late.火车晚点了10 分钟。
  3. This country was founded in the late eighteenth century.这个国家是在18世纪末期建立的。
  4. Tell me about his late illness.告诉我他最近的病况。
  5. There were several clashes before this latest incident.在这次事件发生之前已有过几次冲突。
  6. He found the charity in memory of his late wife.他兴办那项慈善事业以纪念他已故的妻子。
用作副词(adv.)
  1. We went to bed late.我们很晚才上床。
  2. I overslept because I stayed up too late last night.我睡过头了,因为昨晚睡得很迟。

常见句型

用作形容词(adj.)
用作定语~+ n.
  1. We had a late dinner last night.昨晚我们晚餐吃得很晚。
  2. We had a late supper because we came home late.由于回家晚了,我们很晚才吃晚饭。
  3. She returned in the late afternoon.她下午很晚才返回来。
  4. The late edition of this paper appears at 3 p.m.;there is a later one at 5 p.m.这报纸的晚版于下午三时出版,下午五时还有更晚的一版。
  5. It's late summer, soon the days will be cooler.夏末了,很快天气就将变得更凉爽。
  6. The later arrivals had to stand in the back.后来者只得站在后面。
  7. We favour late marriage.我们提倡晚婚。
  8. He is in his late sixties.他是65岁以上的人了。
  9. We will discuss this in more detail in a later chapter.在后面的一章中我们将更详细地讨论这一点。
  10. These fruits are ripe in late autumn.这些水果在晚秋成熟。
  11. He will come here in late May.他将在5月下旬来。
  12. He lived alone in the big house with only the memory of his late wife for company.他只在对亡妻怀念之情的陪伴中独居于那所大屋子里。
  13. The rule was set by the late king.这是先王之制。
  14. The visitor is the late President, now a scholar.这位来访者是前总统,现为学者。
  15. Some late news of the war has just come in.一些有关战争的新消息刚到。
  16. The late storm did much harm.不久以前的这场暴风雨造成了很大的灾害。
  17. This is the late changes in the government.这是政府不久前的变动。
用作表语S+be+~
  1. Can you give me a reasonable excuse for your being so late?你能就你的迟到给我一个合理的解释吗?
  2. I was ten minutes late.我迟到了十分钟。
  3. Spring is late this year.今年春天姗姗来迟。
S+be+~+ prep .-phrase
  1. He was late for appointment.他赴约迟到。
  2. He was too late for the train.他太迟了,未赶上火车。
  3. We hurried so we would not be late for class.我们赶快走才不至于上课迟到。
  4. She dislikes people who are late for work.她不喜欢上班迟到的人。
  5. He was late at the office.他上班迟到。
  6. The bus was late in coming.公共汽车来晚了。
  7. Owing to a meeting,I was late in arriving.由于开会,我来晚了。
  8. The movie was late in starting because of projection difficulties.因放映上的故障电影开映晚了。
  9. We were late with lunch today.我们今天吃午饭晚了。
S+be+~+ v -ing
  1. The bus is late arriving.公共汽车晚到了。
  2. I was late getting up yesterday morning.昨天早晨我起晚了。
It is/was+~+to- v
  1. It's too late to go now.现在去太迟了。
  2. It's never too late to mend.改过不嫌晚。
  3. It's never too late to learn.活到老,学到老。
用作副词(adv.)
用作状语
  1. She married late in life.她很晚才结婚。
  2. He always comes to work early and leaves off late.他总是早上班,晚下班。
  3. He got here five minutes late.他晚了五分钟才到这儿。
  4. I went to bed late on Saturday night.我周六晚上睡得晚。
  5. I saw him as late as yesterday.我昨天还看见过他。
  6. They were here as late as 10 July.他们7月10日还在这里。
  7. They sat up late for his return.他们熬夜等他回来。
  8. He came home late at nigh.他晚上很晚回家。
  9. He reached success late in life.他大器晚成。
  10. Dr. Smith, late of the Maudsley Hospital, has now taken up private practice.不久前在莫兹利医院工作的史密斯医生现在私人开业了。

常用短语

用作形容词(adj.)
be late for one's own funeral
    老是迟到 be late usually
用作副词(adv.)
late in the day
    最后 at last
of late
    近来,最近 recently

词汇搭配

用作形容词 (adj.)
名词+~
  • hour late晚了一小时
~+名词
  • late afternoon近傍晚(时)
  • late day今晚
  • late hour深夜
  • late husband已故的丈夫
  • late month月末
  • late season季末
  • late summer夏末
  • the latest news最新消息
  • the late president已故总统
  • late twenties快30岁
  • late wife已故的妻子
  • late year年末
副词+~
  • extremely late极晚
~+介词
  • late for…迟到
  • late in在…方面迟了
  • late with…迟了
用作副词 (adv.)
名词+~
  • five minutes late迟到5分钟
副词+~
  • better late than never晚做总比不做好

经典引文

  • Trust me...It is not too late to escape.

    出自:E. Waugh
  • Light woke me early, but the trams were late.

    出自:J. Stallworthy
  • I was quite ten minutes late for my appointment.

    出自:A. MacLean
  • The snow lay late that year.

    出自:J. Buchan
  • I got back from Germany late in September.

    出自:C. P. Snow
  • A middle-aged man who had been ordained late in life.

    出自:B. Pym
  • The show started ten minutes late.

    出自:L. Cody
  • Better late than never.

    出自:Proverb

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学英语单词
admit daylight into someone
agriculture water supply
Amauropsis
amount advanced
anerethisia
Asian coral snake
astigma
astrometries
attain to
automatic machine equipment
blisce
box freight car
bumped head
C-PTH
Cabinet Crowd
commercial organization and customhouse
conjugated acid and base
countee
countersunks
crossdisciplinary
daphna
dendroaspiss
dequeue
dyotropic
Early Redemption
embrocated
Ems(Eems)
experimentator
faburdens
focoes
GLBT(gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender)
go-go boots
Good ale will make a cat speak.
grayfields
griffinism
guardiennes
harbinson
heat coagulation
hereditary fragility of bone
Hexathir
horizontal hum bars
in witness whereof
inin
International Petroleum Commission
Internet commerce provider
intersystems
Irian Barat
Kamo Mabuchi
kandahars
Karmathians
last bottom margin
linguliform
machine industry
magnetic ledger
maidenkin
masonville
medium-speed ship
mek
misshaped
mock-heroic
mummy
Nabão, R.
nonadditive mixing
Ophiorrhiza kwangsiensis
otic
overexcavation
p-basis
passenger glow diagram for each direction
pedograph
pivot cup
poliadic
posings
preproduction sample
professional privateers
pulse code system
purple fever
pvts
ray flowers
re-deployed
reserve fund
retransmission technique
Rhodohypoxis
robust blacksmelt
sauce Louis
serial number control
sideyns
slave ants
solderability
special cost
star tv
steel-cored aluminum cable
submeter
temporal response
transaction for forward delivery
tubography
uncancelable
well fluid logging
wikes
Willshire
with a sudden desire to
yawner
zoodes formosanus