| 词汇 | be too late |
| 释义 | be too latebe too late to arrive or do something after the time when something could or should have been done 已经太晚，为时已晚 He shouted a warning but it was too late. 他大声警告，但为时已晚。 too late to do something Are we too late to get tickets? 我们是不是太晚了，买不到票了？ It was too late to turn back. 现在回头已经太晚。 Examples from the Corpus be too late• But now I believe it is too late.• By the time I went back for it, it was too late.• He tried to think of something to do or say, but it was too late.• If you listen to the conventional wisdom in foreign-policy circles, it is too late.• It is by no means so simple for the insurer who is ignorant of that until in some senses it is too late.• That is the stark truth electors have to grasp before it is too late.• This alarming error had been spotted by his Deputy when it was too late to do anything much about it.• When that happens, it will be too late to start building a missile defense. → be too late at late1(1) |
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