It takes a lot of time to catch up with a industrial lag.
工业的落后需要长时间才能赶上。
The dogs always lag behind when we go for a walk.
我们出去散步的时候，小狗总是落在后面。
The little kid
lagged behind her parents.
那小女孩落在了父母的后面。
The internet connection was experiencing lag, causing the video call to freeze repeatedly.
互联网连接有延迟，导致视频通话频繁卡顿。
She felt a mental lag after staying up late the night before, struggling to keep up with the discussion.
她昨晚熬夜后感到思维迟钝，难以跟上讨论。
The game's graphics have improved, but the loading times still suffer from lag.
游戏的图形提升了，但加载时间仍然存在延迟。
The athlete's reaction time seemed to lag behind due to exhaustion during the race.
运动员在比赛中的反应速度似乎因为疲劳而滞后。
Her computer was running on low battery, which led to a significant lag in its performance.
她的电脑电池电量不足，性能明显变慢。
The satellite signal experienced a temporary lag, causing a delay in our live broadcast.
卫星信号出现暂时延迟，直播出现了中断。
There's a communication lag between the two teams working remotely, which is affecting their collaboration.
两个远程工作的团队间存在沟通延迟，影响了合作。
The elderly gentleman struggled with physical lag as he walked slowly down the street.
老人因身体机能减退，走路显得步履蹒跚。
The new software update fixed the lag issue that was plaguing the users for weeks.
新软件更新解决了困扰用户数周的延迟问题。
Lag in decision-making can be detrimental to a company's competitive edge in today's fast-paced market.
决策上的拖延可能对公司在这个快速变化的市场中的竞争力造成损害。
Wen Wu, a senior vice-president of Liugong, said: "Even with a slight increase in demand, the current amount of stock of large machinery will create a lag of time in fulfilling actual demand.
柳工高级副总裁温武表示：“即使需求略有增加，目前大型机械的库存量也会在满足实际需求方面造成时间滞后。
"Deployment of 5G technology in overseas markets has been slower than what we previously thought and investments in the field have also lagged behind," said Chen Zhiping, vice-president of ZTE Corp. "However, we have seen rapid growth of two sectors in our business — fixed broadband and home network solutions — internationally, especially in the Latin American market.
中兴通讯副总裁陈志平表示：“5G技术在海外市场的部署速度比我们之前想象的要慢，在该领域的投资也落后了。”。
However, because of a lack of technology and investment, Pakistan's tire production capacity has lagged.
然而，由于缺乏技术和投资，巴基斯坦的轮胎生产能力一直落后。
According to the companies, the new open standard will reduce the traditional time lag from three to six seconds to less than one second to provide users with more timely broadcasting.
这些公司表示，新的开放标准将把传统的时差从3到6秒减少到1秒以内，为用户提供更及时的广播。
Ant's earnings lag one quarter behind Alibaba's.
蚂蚁的盈利落后于阿里巴巴四分之一。
The research also showed that for companies that continue to lag in expanding their digital capabilities, only 46 percent were satisfied with the integration and collaboration of their supply chains.
研究还表明，对于那些在提升数字能力方面继续落后的公司而言，只有46%的公司对供应链的整合与协作表示满意。
"Lu Ming, deputy director of the Academy of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, said while China has gained competitive advantages in competing globally, many Chinese enterprises still lag behind foreign companies in terms of rich experience, operational management and innovation capabilities as well as international talent.
中国贸促会研究院副院长鲁明表示，虽然中国在全球竞争中获得了优势，但许多中国企业在外方企业面前仍显得经验不足，在运营管理、创新能力以及国际化人才方面存在差距。
However, in recent years, Baidu has seemed to lag behind its two other peer rivals in terms of market valuation and growth momentum, said Chen Duan, executive director of the Zhongjing Digital Economy Research Center.
但近年来，百度在市值和增长势头方面似乎落后于另外两家竞争对手，中经数字经济研究中心执行董事陈端表示。
This is an area where the industry lagged many other industries so far.
这是一个行业远远落后于许多其他行业的领域。
"Chinese companies used to lag far behind multinational pharmaceutical companies in vaccine development and production, but have been gaining ground fast in the past few years," Shi said.
施说：“过去，中国公司在疫苗研发和生产方面远远落后于跨国制药公司，但过去几年进步迅速。”
In recent years, Weibo has become Sina's main growth engine, as Sina's traditional news services lagged behind rivals such as Tencent, NetEase and Jinri Toutiao.
In recent years Weibo has become Sina's main growth engine, as its news services lagged behind rivals such as Tencent News.
"Second, there is a big time lag between the moment you need the data and the moment you get them.
Embedding the alerts in this manner removes the need to download related apps and can reduce time lag, thus enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of early quake warnings, Wang Tun, director of the Institute of Care-Life, said at Xiaomi's annual developer conference.
But the past 10 years saw it lag far behind due to its rigid mechanism.
Meanwhile, the growth of once-dominant energy sector continues to lag behind.
"Chinese panel companies are developing rapidly in the flexible and foldable screens sector, but we still lag behind South Korean competitors in key technical talent, craftsmanship and product reliability," said Wang Jian, an analyst at Beijing-based market researcher Sigmaintell Consulting.
Ma suggested Europe's attitude had held back its tech sector and was the reason it had lagged behind China and the United States in building the kind of tech giants that now dominate.
"Chinese pharmaceutical companies lag behind multinationals in the chemical drugs sector, but it is a different story for biomedicine and innovative drugs R&D," Shi said.
The domestic beer market now faces fierce competition, with severe homogeneity of products, and the products available in the market lag behind consumers' demand for diversification and high-quality products," said Neil Wang, president of consulting company Frost & Sullivan in China.
But, more efforts are still needed for Huawei to beef up its profit margins, which still lag far behind Apple, analysts said.
China lagged behind other countries in building 4G and 3G networks.
"The world is unfair in terms of education resources as a great many developing countries lag behind in education quality, not to mention education embedded with technologies.
"China Unicom and China Telecom still lag behind their rival China Mobile in the field of 4G base stations, construction of telecom infrastructure and number of subscribers.
Its womenswear has lagged behind many fast fashion brands including Uniqlo, Vero Moda, Ochirly, Zara and H&M.
Many Eurasian economies and regions still lag behind in internet infrastructure development and smart freight transportation.
Its 4G services, which once lagged behind China Mobile, the country's largest telecom operator, have been given priority and have contributed to substantial increases in business.
More births brought by a change in birth control policy will bring stronger demand for nursery education around 2018, while the supply of kindergarten places will lag behind in the short term, the company predicted.
We would like to increase awareness in countries that have lagged behind," said Wang Jianjun, founder and CEO of Makeblock.
"Admitting that traditional industrial enterprises lag behind internet companies in terms of cloud infrastructure, Duan is leading her team to carve out a unique combination of deep industrial domain expertise and software capabilities.
"While China's domestic consumer demand experienced a moderate recovery last year, the recovery of consumer demand lagged behind the development of production and supply, putting pressure on prices," he said.
He listed factors such as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic that might have caused a lag in investment data, bearing in mind the long cycle of investors' investment decisions, geopolitics and the overall shrinkage in the scale of global FDI, which fell to $1.3 trillion in 2022, down by about 12 percent year-on-year, according to UNCTAD data.
China's retail sales, a gauge of consumption, have rebounded since August and rose by 10.1 percent year-on-year in November, while investment lagged behind as total fixed-asset investment expanded by 2.9 percent year-on-year in the first 11 months of 2023 due to a slump in real estate development, according to the NBS.
This has been repeatedly proven in practice in dealing with negative externalities, such as environmental pollution, time lag in macroeconomic policy implementation, difficulty in coordinating different policies, and the elimination of market monopolies.
The positive effect of supportive policies — including measures to boost private enterprises — will also be felt, though with a lag.
The local development of many traditional industries, such as chemicals and textiles, lagged behind those of the eastern coastal regions.
Due to the time lag of demand recovery and the basis effect, China's year-on-year growth in consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, may further ease in July, Liu said at a news conference on Friday.
For example, while significant improvements are evident, Chinese corporates still lag when it comes to ESG disclosures and reporting, and the key roadblock to this challenge is ESG data collection.
Financial enterprises require the time lag of data to be shortened to within one millisecond.
He pointed out with foresight that common prosperity would eventually be realized when the people and regions that prospered first helped those that lagged behind.
Meanwhile, the pensions that some people receive, especially in rural areas, still lag far behind their urban counterparts, Guan said.
Despite these notable achievements, Zhang said some Chinese games companies seeking opportunities in global markets still lag behind their international counterparts in areas such as marketing channels and methods.
Foreign trade is a slow variable and has a time lag.
There is a time lag in policy transmission from SOEs to private enterprises.
Brands will act differently in the sustainability drive, with some vigorously seeking progress while some lag behind.
The US Federal Reserve's monetary policy has lagged behind the market curve, which makes it more difficult to curb inflation.
The country will probably see its economic growth accelerate in the second half of the year as there is a time lag between the introduction of policies and their effects, Peng said.
The draft rules came as the market has been awaiting China's specific regulations for overseas listings since the authorities said in July that there would be an update to related regulations rolled out in 1994, which were deemed to have lagged behind current market practices.
Hong Kong's lag in these indexes has actually improved over time, Lau said.
But the lag behind recovery in the job market and income growth and other factors should be given special attention, said Zou Yunhan, deputy researcher at the State Information Center.
Indeed, the upside seems particularly pronounced for Chinese households, as the rebound in consumption has significantly lagged the industrial sector.
While most data in the report were updated to 2020, those for services lag by a year and do not include the COVID-19 pandemic's effects.
But Ying said a broad-based recovery across the nation does not point to a fully synchronized pace of development as the northern and northeastern regions continued to lag behind, making policy efforts to promote coordinated regional development critical.
With all provinces required to take the responsibility for the development and consumption of renewables, those that lag will need to catch up in the next decade, she said.
In China, one main challenge is the lack of adequate ESG information on its companies that lag disclosure requirements of Western peers.
High saving awareness and adequate emergency funds set China apart from global peers, although Chinese residents lagged slightly on the prudent use of debt.
China has a large middle-income population of more than 400 million, but many residents in rural areas and central and western regions have lagged in income level, as 610 million residents had only about 1,000 yuan ($155) in disposable income per month on average as of 2019, the bureau said.
Yet experts said China's economic recovery remained unbalanced as consumption and the services sector lagged, partly attributable to the local COVID-19 cases and slower household income growth due to the virus.
Over the past three decades, global poverty alleviation has lagged far behind the pace of globalization, and rising inequality has been the main cause of the recent wave of counter-globalization.
Retail sales in China have lagged slightly but we at Pictet expect private consumption to recover gradually in the coming months.
The economist noted that the consumption growth lagged earlier last year as citizens were not sure whether the virus was basically under control or not, but the consumption accelerated in the 3rd and especially the 4th quarter.
Although China's economy is poised to be the only major economy with positive GDP growth this year, its recovery in domestic consumption has lagged behind that of exports and investment, with retail sales for the January-November period registering a year-on-year decline of 4.8 percent.
The authorities and companies concerned should be aware that the lag in international rulemaking provides opportunities for a few large countries to act unilaterally and arbitrarily, especially in making new import tariff rules.
The strength of the trade revival has varied, with China and other developing countries in Asia leading the way, while the US has lagged behind.
He noted that while many countries have crossed the line in utilizing e-commerce in conducting business, the African continent should not lag behind but follow suit as well.
Having grown into the world's biggest shopping event, this year's e-commerce extravaganza was particularly observed by China watchers as the country's consumption recovery has generally lagged behind industrial sectors.
"Business activities are expected to further recover as household income and consumption in some areas that lagged behind are likely to continue to improve," Wang Tao, chief China economist at UBS Securities, said in a research note.
Copper supply growth lagged behind demand, with consumption seeing a 3.72 percent year-on-year increase, according to the report.
Japan lagged at 2.02 million units in the same period, up 17 percent year-on-year, data from the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association showed.
Convenience, developmentLocated in southern Xinjiang, Hotan is well known, among other things, for its top-notch, mouthwatering fruits and yet for a long time it lagged in development.
While some SOEs may lag non-SOEs in a number of operating metrics, Meng said he does not think the fundamentals of SOEs are as bad as the large valuation gap suggests.
However, Chinese AI enterprises still lag behind leading foreign competitors in core technologies and fundamental research and development in key fields such as chips and basic components, Pan said.
- Nestled deep in the Taihang mountains, the Huangyadong area once lagged behind in development due to isolation, but it has since embarked on a new development path, with locals engaged in red tourism.
In modern times, its development has lagged behind more prosperous areas, partly because of traffic congestion issues due to an outdated traffic system.
As there is always a time lag in the transmission of policies to investment, appropriate policy adjustments should be made sooner rather than later.
The wait times for semiconductor deliveries reached a new high in March, with lead times, or the lag between when a chip is ordered and delivered, increasing by two days to 26.6 weeks last month.
"In the past two years, under the impact of the pandemic, the recovery of residents' consumption has relatively lagged behind.
Conventionally, the year-on-year changes in supply, or property development investment and new construction area, lag about three to six months behind overall sales performance.
According to Peng, effective tackling of latency is one major feature of 5G-based gaming, because a noticeable lag can make gaming impossible when reaction time is critical.
彭指出，有效解决延迟问题是基于5G的云游戏的一大特征，因为在反应时间至关重要的情况下，明显的延迟会让游戏变得无法进行。
Profit increases of small businesses lag behind medium-sized and large ones, while the increases of private firms are below those for major industrial firms.
小型企业的利润增长滞后于中型和大型企业，而私营企业的增幅又低于主要工业企业的水平。
"We need to face up to the fact that Chinese shoes and apparel brands still lag behind global retail giants in terms of design, promotion, manufacturing skills, sales channels and fashion," Huang Ye, director of the general manager office of internet custom-tailored apparel leader Ybren.
“我们必须正视，中国鞋类和服装品牌在设计、推广、制造技艺、销售渠道以及时尚度等方面仍落后于全球零售巨头。”这是互联网定制服装领军企业Ybren总经理办公室主任黄烨所言。
US tech giant Apple lagged slightly behind, at 14 percent.
美国科技巨头苹果的市场份额略低一些，为14%。
Those who have not yet embraced digitalization need to cooperate with technology companies to catch up or else they may lag further.
那些尚未接受数字化的人需要与科技公司合作，以迎头赶上，否则他们可能会进一步落后。
Due to the increase of operation cost and the government’s efforts to stabilize home prices, the growth of net profit of listed real estate companies lagged behind that of revenue.
Also, there can be a lag in policy response given the leadership's cautious tone toward the property sector.
"Zambia needs such kind of state-of-the-art infrastructure, we should not lag behind as a country in terms of modern buildings," he said.
"We used to lag behind, but thanks to efforts of several generations of researchers, China is now among the few countries in the world to have a comprehensive third-generation nuclear power industrial chain," said Zheng, who is also chief engineer of CAP1400, a third-generation nuclear reactor technology developed by the institute.
Shi Lichen, founder of Beijing Dingchen Medical Consultancy, said Chinese pharmaceutical companies still lag multinationals in the sector of chemical pharmaceuticals despite that they are picking up speed.
Shenzhen's 285 kilometers of operating mileage won its fourth spot, but the figure lagged far behind the first three, while narrowing the gap with cities such as Wuhan, Chengdu and Chongqing, the newspaper added by compiling relevant data.
Producers are motivated to increase investment and output to meet nation's surging demand for gasChina's coalbed methane industry has lagged behind developed countries in the past decade in terms of exploration and development, but industry insiders said the country's surging gas demand and ongoing industry reform will accelerate the sector's commercial development in the coming years.
中国煤层气行业在过去十年间，在勘探和开发方面落后于发达国家，但业内专家表示，由于国内天然气需求激增以及行业改革正在进行中，未来几年该行业将加快商业化发展步伐，生产者将积极增加投资并扩大产量以满足国家对天然气日益增长的需求。
"The use of industrial automation or industrial robots is increasing exponentially in China, regardless of industrial and regional differences," Han said, citing examples of industrial robot-backed factories springing up in Sichuan and Shanxi provinces, which have traditionally lagged behind economically compared with China's coastal areas.
Meanwhile Chinese local firms, especially traditional drug makers, often rely on generics for a large share of sales and revenues, and lag behind in developing new drugs, he noted.
Sports teachers, coaches and researchers that China's sports institutions are nurturing still lag behind, he said.
China Dongxiang has played its part too in promoting Chinese teenage football culture, which has far lagged behind that of Western countries.
He recalled that in 2015, he had made it clear that China still lagged the US by about 30 years in technology, manufacturing development and other areas.
Yet, above all, a 5G network capable of ensuring tens of thousands of people surfing the internet at the same time without network lag at Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium has been one of the top priorities for event organizers.
Experts also warn that although China has made significant progress in developing the AI industry, Chinese AI enterprises still lag behind top-notch foreign competitors in fundamental R&D input and comprehensive innovation abilities.
However, he noted that Chinese tech companies still lag behind top-notch foreign competitors in fundamental R&D input and comprehensive innovation abilities.
But he noted that Chinese tech companies lag behind top-notch foreign competitors in fundamental R&D input and comprehensive innovation abilities.
These are the bestselling ones among those from international volume brands but lag Chinese rivals, primarily because of their lackluster onboard systems and smart features, according to the China Passenger Car Association.