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。
"We are still lagging behind in software today, but will we be strong one day?
“我们今天在软件方面仍然落后，但总有一天我们会强大吗？
A recent survey conducted by media platform Yicai showed that among 1,200 respondents, 90 percent of people now ranked going to the cinema as the number two consumption choice at the beginning of this year, lagging behind travel.
媒体平台壹财最近进行的一项调查显示，在1200名受访者中，90%的人在今年年初将去电影院列为第二大消费选择，落后于旅行。
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。
Though lagging behind market leaders such as Apple Inc, Zepp Health is continuing to raise its investment into its research and development, sales and marketing efforts.
尽管落后于市场领导者如苹果公司，但Zepp Health仍在继续增加对研发、销售和营销的投资。
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。
""Most other countries are still lagging in the platform economy and their ecosystems," he said, referring to the digital infrastructure and the habit of using them in China.
“大多数其他国家在平台经济及其生态系统上仍然落后，”他提到了中国的数字基础设施及其使用习惯时说。这句话的含义是，在平台经济和相关生态系统的发展方面，中国已经取得了显著的进展，而世界上大多数其他国家在这方面还相对滞后。这里的“平台经济”指的是基于互联网平台的商业模式，如电子商务、在线支付、共享经济等；“生态系统”则涵盖了支撑这些平台运行的整个环境，包括技术、政策、市场、用户习惯等多方面因素。在中国，这些平台和生态系统的广泛应用和发展，已经成为推动经济增长和社会变革的重要力量。
"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。
Wu Hanming, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said the existing production capacity of the country's chip industry is lagging demand and the gap is steadily increasing.
中国工程院院士吴汉明表示，目前中国芯片产业的产能落后于需求，而且这一差距还在稳步扩大。
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。
"Gap has been lagging behind in its digital operations in China, as well as in terms of physical stores," he said.
他指出，Gap 在中国的数字运营以及实体店铺方面都落后了。
"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。”
"The method of publicizing products through short video platforms can greatly solve the lagging sales of agricultural products caused by a lack of resources and channels," said Zhang Xintian, an analyst from market consultancy iResearch.
市场咨询公司艾瑞咨询的分析师张欣田表示：“通过短视频平台推广产品的方式，能够极大地解决因资源和渠道不足而导致的农产品销售滞后问题。”
Ouyang Rihui, assistant dean of the China Center for Internet Economy Research at the Central University of Finance and Economics, said as one of China's oldest web portals, Sina is lagging behind its rivals, as it failed to grasp the new opportunities in the age of mobile internet.
Those events will continue to adopt virtual technology to either replace physical events where attendance is lagging or complementary to physical events, according to the Virtual Conference and Trade Show Market Forecast report by Market Research Media based in the United States.
While China's total insurance premium ranked second globally, the per capita figure was disproportionately lagging behind, indicating huge room for growth, said Oliver Rui, a professor of finance and accounting at the China Europe International Business School.
"Per-capita consumption of coffee in China is still lagging behind Western countries, therefore building an entire ecosystem including factories will help with long term strategic market development for Starbucks.
"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.
Shi Lichen, founder of medical consultancy Beijing Dingchen Consultancy, said Chinese companies are at the frontier of biomedicine research and development, despite lagging behind in chemical drugs.
Technological challenges vary between short video apps and longer-form video sites, as the former require instant start-up time and the latter should avoid video streaming lagging, Zhang noted, adding that the most important factor for gaming companies is the in-time update of service packs.
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.
"These large-populated countries with infrastructure lagging behind will have the greatest potential," he said.
"Instead, this will only serve to limit the US to inferior, yet more expensive alternatives, leaving it lagging behind in 5G deployment and eventually harming the interests of US companies and consumers.
"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.
The Donald Trump administration blocked Broadcom's buyout on national security grounds, but Qualcomm investors were frustrated by its lagging share price and poor financial performance relative to its semiconductor peers.
"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.
He said McDonald's has been lagging behind rival KFC.
"China's steel-making equipment is advanced, but in automation and intelligent techniques it is still lagging behind some others," said an industry insider, stressing that more research needs to be done in these aspects.
Many Eurasian economies and regions still lag behind in internet infrastructure development and smart freight transportation.
As e-commerce is booming, the last thing she wants to see is Lane Crawford lagging the trends.
He said sufficient digitalization can strengthen applications of AI, but traditional sectors like heavy equipment manufacturing are lagging in this respect.
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.
However, China is not lagging behind, Han said.
The stock has edged up around 2 percent so far this year, lagging a more than 20 percent gain for the benchmark Hang Seng Index.
"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.
The toymaker has a market share of around 2 percent in China, lagging behind construction toy maker Lego which has 2.8 percent control over the market.
However, the outlook could be vulnerable to the significant challenges of a lingering property downturn and lagging demand, they warned, underscoring the pressing need for and the rising possibility of more easing in macroxadeconomic policies.
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.
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 performance of the nation's stock market, however, seems to be lagging behind market expectations.
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.
If the proportion remains the same in the future, it can only suggest that the financial system is lagging behind and has not created diversified financial assets that match returns with risks.
Financial enterprises require the time lag of data to be shortened to within one millisecond.
Meanwhile, the pensions that some people receive, especially in rural areas, still lag far behind their urban counterparts, Guan said.
"The April growth rate was mainly underpinned by positive short-term factors such as the low base effect over the same period last year, the release of pent-up orders and the lagging impact of inflation in advanced economies.
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.
Third, many countries involved in the BRI are lagging in terms of sustainable development.
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.
Nevertheless, experts noted that China's consumption recovery is still incipient with big-ticket spending lagging, and concerted policy steps are needed to anchor household income expectations and boost their willingness to spend.
One important reason we see for the income gap is lagging development of vertical mobility in China, which hinders the nation's building of a more equitable social structure.
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.
According to Alessandro Zadro, head of the Italy-China Foundation's research center, Italian companies in China are still lagging behind in terms of digitalization, with just one in two companies positioned on Chinese e-commerce platforms.
At present, development of the second and third pillars of China's pension system is lagging behind, and there are also concerns about the adequacy and sustainability of pension funds.
This means China's social philanthropy is seriously lagging behind.
China's economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic is well advanced, but momentum is slowing down partly due to withdrawal of policy support and the lagging recovery of consumption amid recurrent COVID-19 outbreaks, according to a release from the IMF.
China's recovery is well advanced, but momentum is slowing down partly due to withdrawal of policy support and the lagging recovery of consumption amid recurrent COVID-19 outbreaks, according to a release from the IMF.
Moves like the Belt and Road Initiative are very important for helping finance development in other places, upgrading the infrastructure and building the economies that are still lagging behind, which in the long run are "mutually beneficial," he noted.
Despite some developing countries having comparative advantages in labor costs, their development of digital economy is lagging and they need more hard and soft infrastructure to support this move.
Hong Kong's lag in these indexes has actually improved over time, Lau said.
Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, which boasts rich cultural resources and local specialties such as highland barley and yak, had been lagging in large-scale development due to a lack of criteria, certificates and investment.
However, the report also indicated that, though China has become one of the major investors in Africa as its investment in the continent continues to grow, Africa is still lagging far behind other continents in terms of investment from China.
Last year, per capita GDP in China was $10,500.4, which was still largely lagging behind the United States ($63,543.6), Germany ($45,723.6) and South Korea ($31,489.1), according to the World Bank.
Developed economies are seeing strong rebounds because of the fast rollout of vaccines while most developing economies are lagging behind in terms of economic recovery because of slow inoculation speeds.
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.
Han Wenxiu, an official with the Central Committee for Financial and Economic Affairs, said imbalances in recovery remain despite growing internal momentum, with sectors like transportation and tourism lagging and small and medium-sized enterprises suffering.
In addition, the seller market concentration was high in the initial stage of the pilot project, which means the buyers had the bargaining power, and the lagging product design in a few insurance companies had directly affected customers' experience.
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.
China's GDP posted the fastest expansion on record of 18.3 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of the year, yet the economy has not fully normalized, with the services sector, manufacturing investment and consumption lagging behind, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
Large corporations obtained financing more readily than small ones, and industries like technology and finance are rebounding while tourism, entertainment and catering are lagging.
"The economy has yet to become fully normalized," he said, as China's two-year average economic growth for the first quarter of the year stood at 5 percent and fell short of the estimated potential growth rate of around 5.8 percent, with the services sector, manufacturing investment and consumption lagging behind.
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.
Wu Chaoming, chief economist at Chasing Securities, said the northern and northeastern provinces have been the lagging in their recovery as their economies are heavily reliant on traditional industries, leaving them in an inferior position in the ongoing recovery led by high-tech industries.
Notably, the recovery of offline consumption activities－a lagging sector amid the ongoing economic recovery－picked up steam as last month's catering sector revenue posted positive growth compared with the same period of 2019, the first time since the COVID-19 outbreak, Liu said.
The recovery of overseas manufacturers, together with high global commodity and material prices, and the lagging effect of yuan appreciation, will put pressure on China's exports in the second quarter of this year.
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.
For instance, a Chinese investee company may be lagging its Western peers in terms of ESG policies, but it could also be making progress toward its future ESG plans.
But growth still lacks balance, with private consumption lagging investment.
"Gaspar said "clearly there is a general recognition that poor countries do need support," noting that the vaccination process is lagging behind for low income countries at this point in time.
"There have been challenges due to the insufficient domestic demand and the recovery in consumption has been lagging," Wang Yiming, vice-chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, said during a seminar held by the China Macroeconomy Forum in Beijing on Tuesday.
The recovery of the global goods trade has also slowed amid lagging trade in services, which may put pressure on China's sustained recovery, the World Bank said.
In light of the lagging recovery in consumption, officials and experts said policy measures focused on demand-side reform to boost consumer spending will come out soon, with the upcoming annual Central Economic Work Conference expected to give more details.
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.
Economic activity should normalize further next year, supported by the lagging effects of policy stimulus in 2020 and an improving global outlook as COVID-19 vaccines become widely available," said Ding Shuang, chief economist for Greater China and North Asia at Standard Chartered.
“随着2020年政策刺激措施的滞后效应以及随着COVID-19疫苗的广泛可用，全球经济展望不断改善，预计明年经济活动将进一步恢复正常，”渣打银行大中华区及北亚首席经济学家丁爽表示。
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.
"While the recovery is advancing, growth remains unbalanced as it relies heavily on public support while private consumption is lagging," Okamoto said, cautioning that China's outlook faces downside risks, stemming from rising financial vulnerabilities and the increasingly challenging external environment.
"China's urbanization rate rose to 66.16 percent in 2023, still lagging developed economies whose rate is 80 percent.
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.