The southern part of the country was slow to industrialize.

这个国家的南部工业化进程缓慢。

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The world community has been slow to respond to the crisis.

国际社会对该危机的反应向来迟缓。

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Political values and opinions are firmly held, and can be slow to change.

政治价值观和主张是根深蒂固的，要改变可能会很慢。

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The problem,he says, is that policy makers and planners have been slow to recognize this and to support such efforts.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

You would have this initial response, now that initial response might be too slow to prevent you from getting chickenpox.

你对水痘病毒产生初始应答,这种初始应答可能,过于缓慢,无法预防水痘

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Although, I said, insurance was effectively discovered or invented in the 1600s, it has been slow to grow because they didn't have the well-defined-- all of the inventions yet.

尽管我说过，保险实际上,是在17世纪的时候被发现或者发明的，但它的发展非常缓慢,因为人们无法确切定义-,这种被发明出的东西。

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But pharmaceutical executives admit they have been too slow to react to critics and controversy.

FORBES: Spin Doctors

Rebuilding, now feverishly under way, was slow to start, mainly because of delays in insurance payouts.

ECONOMIST: Repairing Canc��n after Wilma

Mr Rea also responded to the allegations that police were slow to respond to the incident.

BBC: Martin McGuinness