| 单词 | lag |
| 释义 | lag I. intransitive verb 1. a. (1) < as he neared the old home, his steps lagged — L.C.Douglas > < lagged behind intent on my collecting — David Fairchild > < lagging a step or two behind in embarrassment — Harold Sinclair > < at no time in my life have seconds lagged so much — T.B.Bruff > < business continued to lag — Wall Street Journal > (2) < will let applicants lag a bit in providing this information — Wall Street Journal > b. (1) < accomplishment lagging behind purpose > < rents lagged far behind prices — W.P.Webb > < new hospital construction continues to lag behind the need — D.D.Eisenhower > < through inattention, she lagged behind at school — Elizabeth Taylor > (2) < the current lags behind the voltage > < insulin of the modified protamine type has relatively quick action, for it lags two hours only — Year Book of Endocrinology > c. < interest in the fascinating drama of French politics never lagged — C.G.Bowers > < that concern with books and reading has never lagged — Ruth Gagliardo > 2. a. b. c. < gambling with Bryan and McKinley buttons, lagging at a line — C.L.Baldridge > transitive verb 1. obsolete 2. < a circuit in which the current lags the voltage — A.E.Fitzgerald > < the one that reaches a particular point in a cycle last is said to lag the other — N.M.Cooke & John Markus > 3. < beer corks lagged, in lieu of pennies, along the sidewalk cracks — Nelson Algren > < lag aggies — P.D.Boles > Synonyms: see delay II. 1. < the lag of all the flock — Alexander Pope > 2. lags plural, obsolete 3. obsolete < the common lag of people — Shakespeare > 4. a. < a region marked in the recent past by relative conservatism, inertia, and lag — Hylan Lewis > < a series of spurts and lags — Times Literary Supplement > < this work must go forward without lag — D.D.Eisenhower > < a definite lag had come in business and industry — W.A.White > < a considerable lag of the blood pressure curve behind the G curve — H.G.Armstrong > b. < the social and political lag that makes the world go on operating in terms of old antagonisms — Saturday Review > < adjustments for price lag — Collier's Year Book > < this apparent lag behind American practice — O.S.Nock > < their intellectual lag in comparison with the rest of Europe — S.H.Cross > c. < the lag of sound in some opera houses — Warwick Braithwaite > < the lag of an alternating current in an inductive circuit behind the impressed voltage > < lag of strain behind stress in an imperfectly elastic material under varying stress > < because they have no lag and indicate an error as it occurs, the horizon and gyro are a tremendous aid in flying the airplane more easily and precisely — H.L.Redfield > d. (1) < the lag between the present and the latest reasonably accurate figures may be four or five years — E.W.Miller > < during this lag the government should provide help — H.S.Truman > < in Scotland the lag was a longer one — Ian Finlay > < made up more than two thirds of the lag behind whites with which they came North — A.L.Kroeber > (2) < the lag between composition and publication is not a uniform one — Nation > < in the lag between basketball season and baseball — Norman Mailer > < in the lags of silence which fell over the shouts — Lawrence Durrell > 5. III. 1. < the lag end of my life — Shakespeare > 2. chiefly dialect IV. 1. obsolete 2. slang a. < the first big-timers to be lagged for using the mails — D.W.Maurer > b. slang chiefly Britain < don't kindle a fire, unless you want to get lagged — Joseph Furphy > V. 1. a. slang chiefly Britain < the typical young lag — Times Literary Supplement > b. Australia < impossible for him not to know that his father was a lag — Rex Ingamells > 2. slang chiefly Britain VI. 1. 2. a. b. 3. 4. textile manuf a. b. VII. 1. 2. < lag a machine to a bench > |
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