slow to act, move or happen; late in happening or arriving
The law is often tardy in reacting to changing attitudes.
法律对变化中的观念常常反应迟缓。
people who are tardy in paying their bills
拖延付账的人
to be tardy for school
上学迟到
1.缓慢的;迟延的,迟到的 (in);磨蹭的,拖拉的
1.arriving late for something, especially a class
2.slow to do something
1.an occasion when you are late for a class, or a record that a teacher keeps of this
1.But he also tends to be forgetful, and is often tardy and mercurial.
但是他很健忘，动作老是慢一拍，脾气也反复无常。
2.At Potsdam, he was tardy again and quick to tell journalists that he intended to leave early.
在波茨坦，他依然拖沓并且很快就告诉记者们他要早走。
3.My message is only a tardy un- homing sail that bear up for you.
我的短信亦只能是一艘向你行进却迟迟没有归航的船只。
4.It is of its own complicated cause that the study of literary history is, for a quite long period, tardy in progress.
文学史研究在相当长的时间内趑趄不前，有它深刻的学术史内部原因。
5.The proposed algorithm, for five specific situations, is presented for the company to minimize the number of tardy jobs.
对于其五种特殊维修情况，我们发展的演算法，可提供公司用来最小化其延误工件数。
6.The shot of a rifle loses its sharpness in the moist air, and its smoke moves in a tardy little cloud towards the green rise.
枪弹在这雨天里失去了锐音，它的硝烟像一朵小云彩，向那青青的山冈缓缓飘去。
7.He was often tardy, and the last straw was him being late for her best friend's 40th birthday party.
他经常拖拉，最后的一次令她实在忍无可忍了，那是他在她最好的朋友40岁生日派对时迟到。
8.Around 25, 000 people are thought to have perished and there was a public outcry over the then government's tardy response.
据称有大约25000人因此死亡，并引发公众对于政府后继反应迟缓的猛烈抨击。
9.They look up and laugh at me, always tardy, a child still at thirty-six.
他们抬头看了看我，在他们眼里，我像一个总喜欢迟到的三十六岁的大孩子。
10.But it might make more sense for you to shift to the tardy one.
但你转向迟到的均衡状态或许更明智。