"But my friend," I protested, "it is late.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

It's too late for this to be a political poem, but Paradise Lost is late for all sorts of reasons.

要写一首政治诗歌太晚了，但弥尔顿这么晚才写《失乐园》有多方面的原因。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And late meal is so much fun because it's like a huge social hour.

迟到的一餐非常好玩，因为它就像是我们社交的时间，

有趣的吃东西协会 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Hopefully it is not too late for us to wake up to make our earth more healthy and beautiful.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

But I am telling you this after you already signed up for the class so it is too late to leave.

我在你们选了这门课后才挑明,想退课也晚了。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Experts say by the time a farmer discovers that something is wrong, it is already too late.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

It's to admit that this is in fact a late epic and that it derives from a close, studious, student-like imitation of the great epics of Homer and Virgil.

也就等于承认它事实上是一部晚期的史诗作品,是源自于雷同的，学究气的，小学生般的,对荷马与维吉尔写的伟大史诗的模仿。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He says it is possible to grow potatoes that resist late blight.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

It has suddenly shot up in the latest years; this is since the late 1990s.

它在近几年突然上升,这是自90年代以来的数据

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It is "Dear Mama" by the late Tupac Shakur.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

you tell me you believe American people should understand about each, We talked about stimulus, and you argues that it is not simulative at all, the cap and trade global warming bill passed the house in late June and now move to the Senate.

您说过,您认为美国人,应该彼此理解，我们讨论了刺激计划，您说刺激没有效果，全球变暖总量控制与交易法案,今年六月刚在众议院通过,现正在参议院审议中。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

By the time they go to a clinic for malaria treatment, Dr.Rwagacondo says it is often too late.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

Agricultural villages will have existed all over the place in the late Stone Age, in the Neolithic Period, as it is known. But there is a difference and the critical difference is that a city contains a number of people who do not provide for their own support.

农业村庄在石器时代后期,以及新石器时代随处可见,但二者是有区别的,最重要的区别在于,城市能容纳,相当数量,无需自给自足的人口

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

but it is also something he does really well and that skill is in demand on the lawless frontier of the late 1800's.

VOA: standard.2010.06.20

And if a train is late, as it very often is,

如果火车来晚了，这经常发生，

有很多旅行者 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

But it is a challenge that needs to be addressed immediately before it is too late,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

It is, in fact, a very deliberate and self-conscious repudiation of that late romantic aesthetic that Yeats's early book, and even the cover of that early book, represents.

实际上，这是一种非常从容不迫有意识的,对早期叶芝的书里体现出的后浪漫审美的抛弃，甚至连早期那本书的封面，都体现出了这种倾向。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

So Israeli leaders are calling for tougher international sanctions on Iran before it is too late.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Now, just to give you a sense of how cold and calculated this business was, and how in many ways the first defense or justification of slavery in America is of course it certainly is by the late Antebellum Period it is an unabashed economic defense, as we'll see.

以上只是为了让你们体会到,这种交易是如何的冷酷而精明,以及战前后期第一次,美国奴隶制度的保卫与正名之战,不管怎么看,都毫无疑问,是一场赤裸裸的利益保卫战,正如我们所见

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

It is scheduled to be completed some time in late 2010.

VOA: standard.2009.11.30

So even though increment is obviously increment declared and defined in this function, it's later; so it's too late for me to use it in main.

很明显，即使在这个函数中,已经声明和定义;,也太迟了，以至于，我在main函数中不能使用它。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

A senior Obama administration official who briefed State Department reporters said if the coup is not reversed within 72 hours, as the regional body demanded late Tuesday, it would clearly mean the expulsion of Honduras from the OAS.

VOA: standard.2009.07.01

Finally, Milton's poem is late by virtue of the simple fact that it's written in the form of an epic. An epic might have seemed like a great idea when Milton was nineteen, but by the time Milton gets actually around to writing it, it's an entirely superannuated, utterly outdated form.

最后，弥尔顿这么晚才写这首诗是因为,这是一首史诗，在弥尔顿19岁的时候,写首史诗看起来可能是个好主意，但到了弥尔顿真正要写的时候，史诗已经是一种完全落伍过时的诗体了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选