1. The plane was late and detectives were waiting at the airport all morning. 飞机误点了,侦探们在机场等了整整一上午。
2. Tell Mary we´ll be late for dinner this evening. 你告诉玛丽,今晚吃饭将晚到一会儿。
3. The sun rises early and sets late. 太阳升得早而落得晚。
4. The sun rises late and sets early. 太阳升得迟而落得早。
5. That´s very late. 那就太晚了。
6. This was a great lesson to me, and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it. 这事给了我很大教训。尽管为时太晚,我现在明白了:在开始做一件事之前,不先估计一下代价,不先正确地估计自己是否有做完这件事的力量,那真是太愚蠢了!
7. Tom got home pretty late that night. 那天晚上汤姆回家很晚。
8. The mornings are probably the worst — waking up with the shock, for the first two weeks, thinking, "I'm late!" 早晨很可能是最糟的--在开始的两个星期里,你会被惊醒, 脑子里还在想: "我迟到了!"
9. The dull ache in your lower stomach reminds you: late for nothing. 胃下部的隐痛在提醒你:已没有什么让你去为之迟到的了。
10. 6 p.m. The movers finally arrive. I call Max. He's fit to be tied. I point out they're only 10 hours late. Max is not humored. 下午六点。搬运工终于来了。我再给马克斯打电话。他气得要命。我告诉他搬运工只迟到了十个小时。他却仍然很生气。