He started working hard much too late in the day—he couldn't possibly catch up.

他开始努力工作已为时太晚—不可能赶上了。

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Share prices fell early on but rose again late in the day.

那天股票价格起先跌了，临近收盘时又涨了。

《牛津词典》

What with one thing and another, it was fairly late in the day when we got home.

由于种种原因，我们回到家时已经相当晚了。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

A better idea is to harvest foods either early or late in the day, then leave them to cool naturally.

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It's sort of late in the day for students who have been through the better part of a semester thinking about the nature of death to argue, maybe, it wasn't such a good idea for you to take this class in the first place.

对学生来说有些太晚了,你们经历了大半个学期,思考着如何讨论死亡的本质，也许，你一开始来上这门课就不是个好主意。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And, you know, when you go up there, as you go up to Montmartre, it's incredible--because I was there once very, very late in the afternoon, and oddly enough I met this woman who went there every day, and I said, "why do you go there every day?"

你知道,当你去到那边,当你去到蒙马特高地,那简直不可思议,因为有次下午很晚了,我在那边,很神奇的,我遇到了一位妇人,她每天都到那里去,我就问她,"你为什么每天都来"

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The dollar fell against the yen late in the day after an earlier rally.

WSJ: Stocks Slide but Still Up for Month

In Europe, markets moved into the red late in the day on Mr. Bernanke's testimony.

WSJ: European Stocks Edge Lower

Late in the day, nothing had changed that would cause him to support the package.

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