Men tend to be the early adopters of computer technologies, whereas women are thought of as laggards.

男性常常是计算机技术的早期采用者，而妇女是作为落后的思想。

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Laggards, such as the European Central Bank, do themselves and the world no favours by holding back.

在这方面落后的央行——例如欧洲央行——畏葸不前对它们自己和整个世界都没有好处。

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Laggards in other areas must step up as well: America's plan to clean up its Banks, for instance, is still inadequate.

而其他领域的滞后现象也要同步跟进：例如美国尚待完善的银行整顿计划。

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Getting everything right at once, and adapting as circumstances change, is as difficult for the laggards as it is for the leaders to keep pushing that ceiling.

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