As our special report in this issue (printed before Mr Jobs's death) explains, innovation used to spill over from military and corporate laboratories to the consumer market, but lately this process has gone into reverse.
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
ADV
近来；最近；不久前
You use lately to describe events in the recent past, or situations that started a short time ago.
"he was in Paris recently""lately the rules have been enforced""as late as yesterday she was fine""feeling better of late""the spelling was first affected, but latterly the meaning also"