belated
Word family adjectivebelatedadverbbelatedlyverbbelatenounbelatedness
be·lat·ed /bɪˈleɪtɪd/ adjectiveadj LATEhappening or arriving late 延误的,迟来的 a belated attempt to increase support 一个迟来的增加资助的举措
belated recognition/realization/acknowledgement The statement was a belated acknowledgement that the project had not been a success. 这是一个迟来的声明,承认这个项目没有成功。
a belated birthday present 迟来的生日礼物
► see thesaurus at late —belatedly adverbadv
belated recognition/realization/acknowledgement• Such a belated recognition is likely to strike a reader as old news.• Most importantly it is a belated recognition that imperialism offers a fantastically huge and barely mined seam of stories.• The belated realization that these things are no longer so leads to the embittered and baffled reaction that they ought to be so.