Chevron, an energy firm, has gone from a laggard to a world-beater.

雪佛龙（一家能源企业）已经从落后的状态中走出，成了一家世界顶尖企业。

The predators will catch the weaker ones, the laggards, they will grab off individuals in the periphery of the group.

掠食者会捕捉体弱和落在后面的，它们会从兽群边缘抢走个体。

Pre-school is a crucial first step to improving the lot of disadvantaged children, and America is an international laggard.

学龄前阶段是改善许多无经济优势的儿童教育情况至关重要的第一步，并且美国是一个国际滞后者。

Laggards will be squeezed as monitoring technology improves.

随着监控技术的进步，落后者将受到挤压。

Moreover, clear leaders and laggards are already emerging.

此外，明显的领导者和落后者已经出现。

Clear leaders and laggards are emerging within industries too.

明显的领导者和落后者也在行业内出现。

In industries such as electric vehicles, America is a laggard (see chart).

在电动汽车等行业，美国落后（见图表）。

Laggards risk going the way of typesetters.

落后者冒着重蹈排字者覆辙的风险。

Private banks are hardly laggards: icici's earnings rose by 37%, Kotak Mahindra's 28% and hdfc's 19%.

私人银行几乎没有落后：icici 的收益增长了 37%，Kotak Mahindra 的收益增长了 28%， hdfc 的收益增长了 19%。

The ability to scoot past tourists and other laggards is a deeply ingrained tradition among Londoners.

从游客和其他落后者身边掠过的能力是伦敦人根深蒂固的传统。

" Easy" . Nimble Dick turned his horse. " Stay close t' Dick. The squishers are apt t' take the laggards" .

" 简单，" 机灵狄克拨转马头，" 跟紧狄克就好。吧唧脚专抓掉队的人。"

The country has already undergone one uncomfortable transition: from being a pioneer of renewable energy to a climate laggard.

该国已经经历了一次令人不安的转变：从可再生能源的先驱者变成了气候落后者。

Why is the Andrus nursing home an outlier? Why is the U.S. a laggard when it comes to healthcare robots?

还有：为什么安德鲁斯疗养院是一个异常值？为什么美国在医疗机器人方面落后？

They reckon South Asia (India excluded) is the global laggard with a score of 0.44 (a score of one represents perfect parity between the sexes) .

他们认为，南亚（印度除外）是全球的相对落伍者，分值只有0.44（分值1表示最完美的性别平等）。

It awaited the family laggard, who found any sort of inconvenience (to others) less disagreeable than getting up when he was called.

它等待着家里的落后者，他发现任何形式的不便（对其他人来说）都比他被叫时起床更不愉快。

Well, that exactly is really ironic because it's taken as read that Europe has the lead in the green transition and that the US is a laggard.

这真的很讽刺，因为人们认为欧洲在绿色转型方面处于领先地位，而美国是落后的。

If it falls short, it is considered evidence that he has been laggard, and a greater or less number of lashes is the penalty.

如果达不到，则被认为是他落后的证据，鞭打次数多或少都是惩罚。

Sweden's Riksbank, a laggard compared with most of its contemporaries, lifted its main policy rate by one percentage point, to 1.75%, the biggest increase in three decades.

与大多数银行相比，瑞典央行表现落后，该行将主要政策利率提高了一个百分点，达到1.75%，这是三十年来的最大增幅。

Many of the West's high achievers have emissions-trading schemes, or other forms of carbon pricing, but even laggards have managed to reduce their carbon footprints.

许多西方的高成就者都有排放交易计划或其他形式的碳定价，但即使是落后者也设法减少了他们的碳足迹。

You see, there's still a misconception that emerging markets, like the African continent, and especially the African continent, are laggards when it comes to innovation or technological advancement.

你看，仍然存在一种误解， 认为新兴市场， 如非洲大陆，尤其是非洲大陆， 在创新或技术进步方面落后。