滯後 | zhì hòu | to lag behind | |
滯留 | zhì liú | to detain; retention | |
滯銷 | zhì xiāo | to sell poorly; unmarketable; slow-moving (product, inventory etc) |
1 | We call this one 'response latency' and it means that, because it takes a lot of brainpower to concoct a lie, there may be a time lag between you asking a question and the other person answering. | |
2 | Free-trade negotiations between India and Japan have dragged on for years, with no deal in sight. | |
3 | Analysts at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch said in a note the U.S. equities market is already fairly priced for a recession. This suggests any indication to even sluggish growth could boost stocks. | |
4 | With wage income up almost 3% in real terms, spending will remain firm and the economy will rebound from its third-quarter lull. | |
5 | A process called hysteresis causes some of the heat energy to be lost, but this new alloy has a low hysteresis, the researchers say. |