Why don't the laggards catch up?

为什么落后者不赶上？

Even the laggards could clock 20% without breaking a sweat.

即使落后于高盛的银行，在这方面都可以不费吹灰之力获利20%。

Or the laggards may be cooking up some biochemical nest protection.

或是调制用来保护巢穴的生化制品。

Policy matters, too, and laggards who change their ways can catch up.

政策也至关重要，那些有所变革的低分国家也可以因此而追赶上来。

Nine states are well below the group average; these laggards include America.

九个国家，包括美国，指标低于平均线。

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

接下来的34%是我们早期接受的大多数对象，是比较晚接受的大多数的行动的。

If German firms can sell them they will no longer be the media world's laggards but its pioneers.

如果德国公司销售这些，那么将彻底打破落后局面一举成为领先者。

Laggards, such as the European Central Bank, do themselves and the world no favours by holding back.

在这方面落后的央行——例如欧洲央行——畏葸不前对它们自己和整个世界都没有好处。

Men tend to be the early adopters of computer technologies, whereas women are thought of as laggards.

男性常常是计算机技术的早期采用者，而妇女是作为落后的思想。

The congregation being fully assembled, now, the bell rang once more, to warn laggards and stragglers.

听布道的人到齐后，大钟又响了一遍，为的是提醒那些迟到的和在外面乱跑的人。

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。

That has brought a switch from laggards to leaders of some $1.1 billion of the $13 billion so far paid out.

到目前为止，130亿美元中的11亿美元发放给从曾经的落后者变成今天的领导者。

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。

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。

The constant refrain from Berlin is that the laggards at the back of the eurozone class need to start doing their homework.

柏林一直在要求欧元区班上的落后生补上他们的家庭作业。

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。

The idea of a mechanism that will name and shame the laggards in the G8 – this year's hosts Italy, in particular – is welcome.

某机构公开点名批评落后的八国集团，尤其是作为本年度东道主的意大利，其观点颇有市场。

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)。

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）。

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。

In the 1960s, Finland had two parallel education systems after primary school; brighter kids went one way, laggards went the other.

1960年代，芬兰人小学毕业后有2套平行的教育系统，聪明一点的走一条路，迟钝一点的走另外一条路。

Africa's biggest economy by far, South Africa, is one of its laggards: it posted average annual growth of only 3.5% over the past decade.

目前非洲最大的经济体—南非—是落后国家之一；上个十年的平均年增长率仅为3.5%。

The laggards were Pakistan, the Philippines and - amazingly - Japan, which achieved only about 1 per cent a year growth in income per head.

排在最后的国家则有巴基斯坦、菲律宾和日本(令人惊讶)，它们的年人均收入仅增长了1%左右。

This global view is based on multispeed growth dynamics, with the healing and healthy segments of the global economy gradually pulling up the laggards.

这种对全球经济的判断基于多速增长动力驱动，即全球经济中健康与痊愈中的部分经济逐渐带动停滞的经济。

The first to arrive at the pulsating source proceed to form synaptic connections with their targets; any laggards, by contrast, fail to proliferate and instead degenerate.

首先到达脉冲源的神经元就会和他们的靶点形成突触结合，相比之下，落后者不是繁殖而是退化。

Measuring aid flows as a proportion of national wealth, Britain already outstrips fellow G7 members such as America, France or Germany, let alone such laggards as Italy (see chart).

以援助金额作为衡量国家经济的一个指标的话，英国已经超过G7其他成员国，如美国、法国、德国等，更不用说意大利这样经济相对落后的国家了。

Far from opening a dangerous new division within the eu, the Germans think they are closing one: between competitive economies and the laggards that threaten the survival of the euro.

非但没有在欧盟内部成立一个危险的新的部门，德国人认为他们正在关闭一个：在具有竞争力的经济体同威胁欧元生存的落后经济体之间。