lag

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lag1 /læɡ/ verb (lagged, lagging)

1 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]SLOW to move or develop more slowly than others 落后(于)，拖后

lag behind

She stopped to wait for Ian who was lagging behind.

她停下来等落在后面的伊恩。

Britain is lagging behind the rest of Europe.

英国被欧洲其他国家落在了后面。

2 [transitiveT] British EnglishBrEDH to cover water pipes etc with a special material to prevent the water inside them from freezing or the heat from being lost 给〔水管等〕加上防冻[保温]层

We’ve had the hot-water tank lagged.

我们已给热水箱加上了保温外罩。

Examples from the Corpus

lag• This year, private fund-raising for the museum has lagged.• At the same time in October, 56. 4 percent of companies beat estimates while just 32. 2 percent lagged.• Nails was ahead but Hoomey was lagging.• Cyclical, industrial stocks lagged badly amid disappointing earnings and worries about flagging economic growth.• Some sectors, moreover, lagged behind completely, by force of circumstances or on account of reluctance to abandon traditional ways.• In the total absence of black dancers, Covent Garden lags behind other ballet companies in the West.• Therapeutics may lag behind, possibly for decades, so I will abstain from discussing these aspects here.• Agriculture was lagging behind the general prosperity levels.

lag behind• Sales figures are lagging behind last year's by 40 percent.• He deliberately lagged behind so he could have a cigarette.• We started walking faster, not wanting to lag behind the rest of the group.

lag2 noun [countableC]

DELAYa delay or period of waiting between one event and a second event 〔两个事件之间的〕时间间隔，相隔的时间

a time lag

时间滞差

→ jet lag , old lag

Examples from the Corpus

lag• But for a lag in publication caused by the war, his volume would have missed the story of the camps.• Another lag, for example, is that between changes in instruments and the achievement of the employment and prices objectives.• The jet lag induces a mild form of hallucination.• But there will inevitably be time lags and imprecision in the process.• No time lag should come between demand and supply.• With a variable lag the Fed would have to know the lag for each specific case in which it is considering policy.

time lag• Given the complexity of this task there is always a time lag in the publication of mortality by cause of death data.• That there was a time lag heartened me.• As Chapter 4 noted, the average time lag between daily use and first contact with an agency was 2.6 years.• But there will inevitably be time lags and imprecision in the process.• No time lag should come between demand and supply.• But in a way that time lag, though it could be frustrating, was also a blessing in disguise.• The time lag in the nocturnal response is quite marked - averages point nine plus of a second greater.

From Longman Business Dictionary