laggards

Sales of the stakes the savings banks hold in Spanish companies and takeovers of laggards by the healthier ones could fund some of that.

出售储蓄银行持有的公司股权和资产更为健康者收购落后者可能为此筹得部分资金。

Japan continued to be among the laggards with 5. 7 per cent growth, which still left it number two in the global league table.

日本的研发支出增长5.7%，继续位居后列，但该国仍居全球研发支出排行榜的亚军。

Laggards in other areas must step up as well: America's plan to clean up its banks, for instance, is still inadequate.

而其他领域的滞后现象也要同步跟进：例如美国尚待完善的银行整顿计划。

European companies are laggards in spending on research and development--but a new report offers a few upward trends.

欧洲公司对研究和发展的经费开支一向不是很积极--不过最近有一个新的报告展现了一些好的趋势。

New investors may be unable to gain access to the top groups and end up funding the laggards.

新投资者可能无法接触到这些领先者，最终只能投资于落后者。

S. dollars. As the industry's laggards , Yahoo and America Online also has its own piece of territory.

而作为这个行业里的落后者，雅虎和美国在线也拥有自己的一块领地。

I hope you will become a revolutionary writer, do not want you to become an era laggards.

我希望你们成为一个革命的文学家，不希望你们成为一个时代的落伍者。

In fact, the laggards sometimes have the best insights about the reasons their organizations would not adopt a new standard.

实际上，有时候落伍者对于自己的企业不采用新标准的原因最清楚。

Only a few laggards, such as Latvia and Ireland, are now likely still to be in recession.

只有少数的落后者，例如拉脱维亚和爱尔兰，如今可能仍然陷于经济衰退。

these laggards include America. It is not just infant mortality, an essential indicator, in which America lags behind (see chart).

美国不仅仅因为健康指标中一个基本指标，婴儿死亡率，才落后的（见图表）。

Second, it is right to doubt that the current laggards will suddenly turn over a new leaf.

第二点，现在的落后者在对抗气候变化的努力上会突然掀开新的一页，对于这一点进行怀疑是对的。

Several studies have shown that the investment in future stars rises sharply once laggards have been dumped.

研究表明，一旦拖后腿的部门被剥离，“明日之星”得到的投资会迅速增加。

The OECD's comparisons of national figures on health, education and economic activity are used to encourage laggards .

经合组织将成员国的卫生，教育和经济活动的国家统计数据进行比较以督促落后者进步。

Even the best firms could do more of this, and laggards could copy them, says Mr Sirkin.

即使是最好的公司在这方面也还有进步的空间，而落后的公司效仿这些好公司即可。

In Dubai, public agencies compete to impress the country's go-ahead sheikh, who praises the best and humiliates the laggards .

在迪拜，公共机构为给这个国家有进取心的酋长留下深刻的印象而竞争激烈，酋长们褒奖表现最好的，鄙视落后的。

Finally, Germany reckons saving the euro will require laggards to embrace greater budgetary discipline and openness.

最后，德国认为要想拯救欧元，落后国必须要遵守更加严格的预算纪律并进一步提高开放度。

Even if the laggards are stirring, they still have much to do.

但即便是死气沉沉的市场正向生机勃勃变化，但仍有很多事情要做。

Output may shrink 10 per cent this year, making Russia one of the former Soviet bloc's laggards.

今年，俄罗斯的产出可能会萎缩10%，在经济增长方面位居前苏联集团国家的后列。

Laggards (the remaining 16%) or skeptics will only use advanced technology if they have no other choice.

落伍者（剩下的16%）或怀疑论者，仅当没有其他选择时才使用先进的技术。

The next 34 percent are your early majority , your late majority and your laggards .

接下来的34%是早期接受的大多数，然后是比较晚接受的大多数和最后行动的。