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单词 straggler
释义
straggler
noun[C]
uk
/ˈstræɡ.lər/us
/ˈstræɡ.lɚ/
apersonoranimalthat is last in agroupto do something or the last to get to orleaveaplace:
落伍者，掉队者；落在后面的人（或动物）
Wewatchedthe last of the stragglers come in, threehoursafter the firstrunner.我们看到落在最后面的选手跑过来了，他整整落后第一名选手3个小时。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Slow and moving slowly
  • (as) slow as molassesidiom
  • at a snail's paceidiom
  • by and byidiom
  • by degreesidiom
  • clawyourway(somewhere)idiom
  • drift
  • float
  • inch by inchidiom
  • infiltrate
  • infiltration
  • jog
  • labour
  • lag
  • laggard
  • sluggishly
  • sluggishness
  • snail
  • steadily
  • steadiness
  • struggle
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(Definition ofstragglerfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofstraggler

straggler
The first generation studied were partly composed of stragglers from hopper bands and flying swarms.
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His work was to lead the caravan along the correct route, and mark off the paths which stragglers were not to take.
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Correspondingly there are other areas, too, that still or already lie in shadow as outposts or stragglers.
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This is also, probably, astraggler.
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A few fortunate stragglers from this column were picked up in the last stages of exhaustion, their bare feet in ribbons.
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By and large, however, such people are only stragglers.
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He simply lines the heights, retires from vantage point to vantage point, cuts off stragglers and thoroughly enjoys himself.
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If we continue on selective lines we shall go into the 21st century as stragglers with the ideas of the 19th century.
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Have any steps been taken to disarm or in tern the isolated deserters or stragglers?
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The tribunal has completed its work, except for a fewstragglercases, and is notifying producers of its decisions as quickly as possible.
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Very few stragglers from the legion of transgressors come before the courts, and fewer still of those who do come before the courts go inside prison.
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This is justified by the claim that one should negotiate with the economically and socially most advanced applicants in the hope that the stragglers will eventually catch up.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Some stragglers he has lost.
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Roving bands of stragglers and highwaymen filled her with unspeakable terrors for her son.
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This means that a player with a pair of leapfrogging pieces has an advantage over a player with two individual stragglers.
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