India is often portrayed as an elephant: big, lumbering and slow off the mark.

印度经常被描述成一头大象：庞大，动作笨拙，行动迟缓。

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In China, India and Brazil, the big emerging markets that will provide nearly all the industry's future growth, Toyota has been slow off the mark.

中国、印度和巴西这些巨大的新兴市场将为整个行业提供未来的增长，而丰田公司的行动却比较迟缓。

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They can glide past eddies that would slow them down and then gain extra thrust by "pushing off" the eddies.

它们可以滑过使它们减速的涡流，然后通过“推开”涡流获得额外的推力。

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It was raining as I got off the train in Nashville, Tennessee - a slow, gray rain.

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They were pretty slow off the mark to do something about this, and it was after lawsuits were filed that they actually made the change.

他们先慢腾腾的应付着,直到诉讼结束时才真正做出改变

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He says the damselfish are now killing off parts of slow-growing coral.

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There are mutterings from them that the FSA was slow off the mark in expressing its reservations.

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Even Richard Li and his Pacific Century group seem slow off the mark in the Net world.

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Not that he's slow off the mark when it comes to social media.

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