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late有adj.和adv.两种，作为adv.时：
1.after the expected, arranged or usual time
迟；晚：I got up late.
2.near the end of a period of time, a person's life, etc.
接近末期；在晚年:late in March/the afternoon 三月下旬；傍晚：It happened
late last century-in
1895to be exact.那事发生在上个世纪末——确切的说，发生在1895年。He became an author late
in life.他到晚年才成为作家。
3.near the end of the day 临近日暮；接近午夜：There's a good film on
late.深夜有一场好电影。
Late that evening,
there was a knock at the door.那天深夜，有人敲过门。
（此处对于副词的语序，还得继续弄清楚，如：上面的late last
century和Late that
evening副词之间的语序是怎样的？？？）
late相关的词组：better late than never迟到总比不到强。 late
in the day为时已晚；已失时机。late of...:until recently working or living in
the place mentioned直到最近工作（或居住）的地方：Professor Jones, late of Oxford
University.直到不久前还在牛津大学任教的琼斯教授。 of late:recently最近；新近；近来：I haven't
seen him of late.我最近未见过他。
lately adv. recently;in the recent past最近；新近；进来；不久前
Late and lately are both adverbs, but late is used with
similar meanings to the adjective late, whereas lately can only
mean ‘recently'.
deep/deeply
The adverbs deep and
deeply can both mean ‘a long way down or into something’. Deep can
only mean this and is more common than deeply in the sense. It is
usually followed by a word like into or below. we decided to go
deeper into the junglge.我们决定继续深入丛林。
Deeply usually means
‘very much’：deeply in love. deeply shocked. you
can use deep down(but not deeply) to talk about a person's real
nature:she can seem stern, but deep down she's a very kind
person.
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