[definition]
[C] a person who makes slow progress and falls behind others.
[sentence]
1. This cut-throat contest is not for losers and laggards.
2. The Chinese football team has long been a laggard, an embarrassment to many Chinese.
3. Britain's economy has gone from a leader to a laggard internationally, as GDP growth has slowed sharply.
4. Indeed, half a millennium ago Europe might justly have been considered a laggard.
5. On its current path, the country will remain a growth laggard.
[practice]
这个国家的经济一度落后，不过现在已经开始迎头赶上了。
This country was once an economic laggard but now has begun to catch up.
Once a laggard, the economy of this country is starting to catch up.
Long a laggard, this country's economy is beginning to pick up.
