Tardy

(superl.) Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift.

(superl.) Not being inseason; late; dilatory; -- opposed to prompt; as, to be tardy in one's payments.

(superl.) Unwary; unready.

(superl.) Criminal; guilty.

(v. t.) To make tardy.

校对:鲁珀特

• Her judgments ought to be correct when they come, for they are often as tardy of delivery as a Lord Chancellor's. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• At last I looked up at the tardy speaker: he was looking eagerly at me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• But the fortune, which had been so tardy in coming, was his only one twelvemonth. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• A benign though tardy Providence blurred my vision and my mind as I sank into unconsciousness across the lifeless body of my only son. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Here I may even cease to repine, and may add my tardy consent to the decree which has taken him from me. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• At least, no friend came forwards immediately, and Mrs. Thornton is not one, I fancy, to wait till tardy kindness comes to find her out. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The tardy day did not appear until he had been on foot two hours, and had traversed a greater part of London from east to west. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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