おそい【遅い】
- 1〔速度がのろい〕slow
- 足が遅い
- walk slowly/《文》 be slow of foot
- 物分かりが遅い
- be slow to understand [grasp] things
- 2〔夜が更けている〕late
- もう遅いから寝よう
- It's already late, so let's go to bed.
- 夜遅くまで起きている
- stay [sit] up (till) late at night
- 交渉は夜遅くまでかかった
- The negotiations lasted far into the night.
- 3〔時間・時期がおくれる〕late
- 今年は白鳥の来るのが遅い
- The swans are late (in coming) this year.
- 朝遅く起きる
- get up late in the morning
- 遅くなるから先に行ってくれ
- I'll be late, so don't wait for me.
- 遅くなってすみません
- I'm sorry it took me so long./〔お待たせしました〕I'm sorry to have kept you waiting.
- 明日から開店時間が30分遅くなる
- Beginning tomorrow, the store 「will open [opens] thirty minutes later.