1. The former is characteristic of species that live in unstable environments and the latter of species whose circumstances are predictable. 前者是生活在在不稳定环境下物种的特点，而后者的物种所生活的环境是可预见的。
2. These latter people read books in order to enlarge their sense of what is possible and important - either for themselves as individuals or for their society. 后面这种人读书是为了扩大他们对哪些事有可能及哪些事才重要的感觉，无论是为他们个人抑或为他们的社会。
3. At the end of the period he marks of the latter class surpassed those of the control group, not only in English, but in every subject, including mathematics and the sciences. 到实验期结束的时候，后一个班的成绩，不单是英语成绩，而是每一科的成绩，包括数学和自然学科成绩，全都超过了参照班的成绩。
英英解释
n.
1. the second of two or the second mentioned of two
2. referring to the second of two things or persons mentioned (or the last one or ones of several)
