das Wörterbuch Englisch Minus Englisch

English - English

lately Englisch:

1. recently recently


Prices dropped recently.
Until quite recently, people in developed countries didn't care much about the environment.
I was at a musical recently, in the third row. Seeing the actor I love up close like that made me feel more smitten with him than ever.
More recently, some hutongs have been designated as protected areas in an attempt to preserve this aspect of Chinese cultural history.
More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations.
And when the first Muslim-American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers – Thomas Jefferson – kept in his personal library.
Recently, what with this and that, I haven't been able to sing so today I sang like there's no tomorrow!
George was describing a 30 pound bass he'd caught recently after fighting it for three hours.
I went to the dentist recently and he did a cast of my teeth and took an X-ray, 'just in case.' It sounds like a good business to be in.
That you should be stalking Hanako! You'd been quiet recently so I'd let my guard down.
Recently I've stopped being afraid of "living in shame" and being exposed to "public ridicule".
Many people suffer from heart disease in Japan, but in Libya those having heart attacks have also increased a lot recently.
Recently I attended the wedding of a Chinese friend. The bride and groom had been classmates at university, and both graduated from the Chinese faculty. They've already been together for five years.
Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer. They were taking a badly damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired.
Actually, and I need to keep this quiet, but recently here there's a rumour that young women on this beach are having photos taken in secret of them.

Englisch Wort "lately"(recently) tritt in Sätzen auf:

new opportunities - intermediate

2. late late


Too late.
It was bad enough that he usually came to work late, but coming in drunk was the last straw, and I'm going to have to let him go.
It's too late to shut the stable door after the horse has bolted.
In late August, the Allied forces captured Paris.
When she was late, I felt like scolding her, but I held my tongue.
If your rent comes in past the fifth, a late charge will be added.
Churchill visited Stalin late in 1944.
He attended the high school for three years without missing a single day or being late.
Good morning. You're a bit late today, aren't you? "Yes, I ran into a bit of trouble."
Though he lives within a stone's throw of the school, he is often late.
I discovered too late that I left out the most important part of my speech.
We were held up for half an hour in the traffic and so we arrived late.
Let’s go now. Otherwise, we'll be late.
Your voice reminds me of my late grandmother.
The number of students who were late for school was much smaller than I had expected.

3. Present Perfect Present Perfect