I haven't got a copper farthing here, —unless Perrotet, who is behindhand with his rent, should pay up.

我这儿一分钱也没有，——除非拖欠房租，他应该付清。

Martha must have concluded that she was very much behindhand, for the dinner had only just been put into the oven.

玛莎肯定认为自己已经落后很多了，因为餐才刚刚放进烤箱。

If Oliver were behindhand in these respects, he knew where the best were to be found; and morning after morning they scoured the country together, and brought home the fairest that blossomed.

如果奥利弗在这些方面落后，他知道在以找到最好的；一个又一个早晨，他们一起走遍了整个国家，把盛开的最美丽的花朵带回家。