英语词汇“latter”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	latter
释义	lat·ter \ˈlad.ə(r), -atə-\ adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English lætra slower; akin to Middle High German lazzer slower, Old Norse latari; compar. of the adjective represented by Old English læt late, slow — more at late 1. a. : belonging to a subsequent time or period : coming after something else : later < the latter stages of a process > < promises to deal with latter events in a second volume > < how spiritless, how fallen upon meager latter days — D.C.Peattie > b. (1) : belonging or relating to the end (as of life or the world) : last, final < in his latter years threw his printing press into the sea — Mabel Dolmetsch > < remind worshipers of … their own latter end — G.G.Coulton > < proclaimed these were the latter days, with God's judgment drawing nigh > (2) : belonging to the second half of the two divisions of a period < indicates composition in the latter months of 1813 — K.N.Cameron > specifically : second < during the latter half of the nineteenth century — F.L.Allen > c. : recent, present < the human race in these latter days — G.M.Trevelyan > 2. : being the last named of two or more mentioned or understood things < the novel … grows out of the epic as a reaction against the latter — Leon Livingstone > < the drum, the rattle, and the flute, the latter reserved wholly for love songs — American Guide Series: Minnesota >
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