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.
克林顿在刚开始的时候反应缓慢，在当选后的六个星期里，他都沉浸在闲扯中而没有任命任何一个资深的职位。
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.
这令那些底特律的汽车制造厂商不禁暗地高兴了，因为他们的混动车开发较日本厂商的晚。
India is often portrayed as an elephant: big, lumbering and slow off the mark.
印度经常被描述成一头大象：庞大，动作笨拙，行动迟缓。

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.
他们先慢腾腾的应付着,直到诉讼结束时才真正做出改变
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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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