Better late than never_其他_趣味英语-查字典英语网

Better late than never

Moral of the story?

Yes, better late than never - it's better to do what you are supposed to have done now, even though it is late, than to never do it at all. In other words, it's never too late to mend our ways.

Here are three of the more recent sightings of "better late than never" in the news:

1. Better Late Than Never

An obituary on Monday and in some copies on Sunday about Isadore Barmash, a retired business reporter for The New York Times, rendered incorrectly the name of a department store that he wrote about frequently. It was Gimbels, not Gimbel's. Gimbels, which closed in 1986, has been referred to correctly in The Times more than 500 times since 1980 and incorrectly more than 120 times; this is the first time the error has been corrected.

- regrettheerror.com, November 26, 2006.

2. Better late than never

India talks about tackling climate change

PERHAPS it was the prospect of monsoon flooding of the kind that has left 800 dead on the Indian subcontinent this month. Or maybe the push came from another of the recent dire predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-for example, that the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Indus could become seasonal rivers by 2035. Whatever the reason, India has decided to formulate a policy on climate change….