It does not mean accepting the lowest common denominator or clinging to outmoded ideas out of apathy or fear.

也不意味着要刻意迎合大众口味，或是因冷漠或恐惧而抱住落后的想法不撒手。

There's always a constant fear of falling behind everyone else on the socially perpetuated race to the finish line, whether that be toward graduate school, medical school or lucrative career.

社会上永久延续着一场“向终点冲刺的比赛”，无论终点是研、医学还是赚钱的职业，人们总有一种落后于别人的担忧。

The reason why the British students fall behind - it's their attitude.

英国学落后的原因，在于他们的态度。

Those with degrees from elite universities catch up fairly quickly to where they otherwise would have been if they had graduated in better times; it is the masses beneath them that are left behind.

从精英大学毕业的人会快速赶上他本该拥有的职位；落后的人不是别人，是他们底下的普通大众。

Loosening these rules would help to revive the ailing manufacturing sector.

放宽这些规定将帮助复兴落后的制造业。

It's a matter of retrieving the values that we're in danger of leaving behind and then embedding them in the digital infrastructure for the future.

我们处于落后的危险之中，这值得我们研，然后将研结果嵌入到未来的数字础设施中。

Until the 1980s Qatar was little more than a sandy backwater.

在九十年代之前，卡本上只能说是一片落后的多沙地带。

This did not condemn them to eternal backwardness.

这倒不是说方言永远是落后的。

McLaren's four minutes behind him in a GT.

迈凯轮的GT落后他四分钟。

Third, besides the inevitable difficulties of working in places that have poor medical infrastructure, the campaign ran into some specific human problems.

第三，除了这些不可避免的医疗设备落后的工作困难之外，此项活动偶还会遇到人类问题。

The other is to develop the vast but backward west and achieve the long-sought goal of reducing stubborn regional disparities.

另一部分是发展面积广阔但落后的西部，改变长期以来地区差距难以消除的状况。

Remember that life is made of small moments that change us more than we know — a hug when we need it most, a kind word, the decision to show up for someone who's falling behind.

记住，活是由许多的微小时刻组成的，这些时刻比我们所知道的改变我们更多——在我们最需要的时候拥抱，一个善意的话，为落后的人留下来的决定。

Then we heard a second argument that said Affirmative Action is justified even where there may not be the need to correct for educational disadvantage in a particular applicant's case.

然后我们听到了第二种论点，认为平权法案是合理的，即便对于某个特定申请人无需纠教育落后的因素也是合理的。

Already teachers like Jill Maranon , a special ed teacher in New York, says she sees the signs of students falling behind.

来自纽约的特殊教育老师吉·马拉诺称，她看到了学落后的迹象。

Mississippi, often behind in social policy, has set an example here.

经常在社会政策方面落后的密西西比州在这里树立了榜样。

These woes fit a longer-running pattern of Latin America falling behind.

这些困境符合拉美洲长期落后的模式。

We are in one of the poorer areas in the nation, right?

我们地区是全国较落后的地方，是不是吗？

Sometimes a candidate pulls away from the pack and becomes the clear favorite.

有时，某个候选人会从落后的位置赶超，成为最热门的（the clear favorite）候选人。

Not good, to be honest… We're way behind our forecasts.

老实说并不好。我们远远落后于我们的预期。

Yet East Germans faith in their government is also shaken, reflection of lagging economic prosperity.

德国东部对其政府的信任也遭受冲击，从其落后的经济发展便可见一斑。