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落后
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- [luòhòu]
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- 落后 [luòhòu]
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行进中落在别人后面
- 到达终点时他只落后第一名不到一米。
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2.
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工作进度、发展水平或认识程度落在后面
- 改变家乡的落后面貌。
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行进中落在别人后面
Examples
- 安于落后，不求上进
- be quite satisfied with one's backward state (or be satisfied with oneself) and not wish to do any better → 安于
- 摆脱贫穷落后的状态
- be lifted out of poverty and backwardness → 摆脱
- 比分落后
- score against one → 比分
- 如果不分青红皂白，一概拒绝向外国学习，就只能使中国永远处于落后地位。
- If we indiscriminately refused to learn anything from foreign countries, China would remain backward forever. → 不分青红皂白
- 分散的落后的个体经济
- a scattered and backward individual economy → 分散
- 谁也不甘心落后。
- Nobody is willing to be left behind. → 落后
- 他的思想很落后。
- His thoughts are very backward (or are far behind the times). → 落后
- 落后地区
- backward areas; less developed areas → 落后
- 惟恐落后
- for fear that one should lag behind → 惟恐
- 愚昧落后
- ignorant and backward → 愚昧
Collocations
- 非常落后
- backwards
- 不甘落后
- not content to lag behind
- 落后的面貌
- a backward appearance or features
- 经济落后
- underdeveloped
- 贫穷落后
- poor and backward
- 落后许多
- lagging far behind
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