We were unable to make contact with them until it was too late.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
为时已晚
already too late
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
already too late
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 为时已晚 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 为时已晚 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Can we still save the world, or is it too late?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 为时已晚.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 为时已晚.
Directly before
- 已经为时已晚1
- 还是为时已晚1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 为时已晚
What does 为时已晚 mean in Chinese?
为时已晚 (wéishíyǐwǎn) means already too late.
How do you pronounce 为时已晚?
为时已晚 is pronounced wéishíyǐwǎn.
Is 为时已晚 an HSK word?
为时已晚 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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