每日一词 146 l laggard

每日一词 146 l laggard

1- laggard

a person who makes slow progress and falls behind others.

• This cut-throat contest is not for losers and laggards.

2- 落后者

• The Chinese national football team has long been a laggard, an embarrassment to many Chinese.
• Britain's economy has gone from a leader to a laggard internationally, as GDP growth has slowed sharply.
  ***go from a leader to a laggard 从领头羊到落后者
• Indeed, half a millennium ago Europe might justly have been considered a laggard.
• On its current path, the country will remain a growth laggard.

3-
This country's economy used to be a laggard begins to catch up.
​【参考答案】
Once a laggard, the economy of this country is starting to catch up.
Long a laggard, this country's economy is beginning to pick up.

4- 造句​

​​The younger engineer is starting to work hard,because he has been considered a laggard.
O​nce a loser and a laggard, now they become mentor and inspirator ​