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tardy

C1 adj

tardy /ˈtɑɹdi/ nghĩa là trễ, muộn

Các nghĩa

  1. trễ, muộn

    Late; overdue or delayed.

    He yawned, then raised a tardy hand over his mouth.

    When everything is ended, then you come. / These tardy tricks of yours will, on my life, / One time or other break some gallows’ back.

    Men of genius anticipate their contemporaries, and know they are such, long before the tardy consent of the public.

  2. chậm chạp

    Moving with a slow pace or motion; not swift.

    […] fashions in proud Italy, / Whose manners still our tardy apish nation / Limps after in base imitation.

    Nor should their Age by Yeares be told: / Whose Souls, more swift then Motion, clime; / And check the tardy Flight of Time.

    These berries […] are a deadly and insidious poison, though very tardy in their action, often lying dormant in the blood for many days.

  3. đần độn, chậm hiểu

    Ineffectual; slow-witted, slow to act, or dull.

    His tardy performance bordered on incompetence.

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