落后 | luò hòu | to fall behind / to lag (in technology etc) / backward / to retrogress | |
落败 | luò bài | to suffer a defeat / to fail / to fall behind | |
掉队 | diào duì | to fall behind / to drop out | |
名落孙山 | míng luò sūn shān | lit. to fall behind Sun Shan 孫山|孙山[Sun1 Shan1] (who came last in the imperial examination) (idiom) / fig. to fail an exam / to fall behind (in a competition) |