slow off the mark

基本解释

He was slow off the mark, failing to make a single senior appointment for six weeks after he was elected and indulging instead in endless waffle.
尅林頓在剛開始的時候反應緩慢，在儅選後的六個星期裡，他都沉浸在閑扯中而沒有任命任何一個資深的職位。
To the silent glee of Detroit's manufacturers, who were slow off the mark with hybrids, the EPA is about to revise the way it conducts its measurements.
這令那些底特律的汽車制造廠商不禁暗地高興了，因爲他們的混動車開發較日本廠商的晚。
India is often portrayed as an elephant: big, lumbering and slow off the mark.
印度經常被描述成一頭大象：龐大，動作笨拙，行動遲緩。

They were pretty slow off the mark to do something about this, and it was after lawsuits were filed that they actually made the change.
他們先慢騰騰的應付著,直到訴訟結束時才真正做出改變
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In China, India and Brazil, the big emerging markets that will provide nearly all the industry's future growth, Toyota has been slow off the mark.
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