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A straggler is the one at the back — the person or animal who has fallen behind the rest of the group because they are slower, tired, hurt, or just not keeping up. Think of a school walking party spread out along a mountain path, with two children far behind: those two are the stragglers. The word is common in writing about armies, long walks, , and animals moving together. It usually carries a little worry in it, because the one at the back is the one who gets lost or caught. There is a second, gentler use: stragglers can mean the few people who arrive late or leave last. 'A few stragglers were still finishing their coffee.' No danger there, just lateness. The word can also be used for things — a few straggling flowers still open in November. It comes from the verb straggle, which means to move along in an , spread-out line instead of a tidy group, plus -er for the person who does it.
落後者、掉隊的人（走在隊伍最後面跟不上的那個）；也可以指「最後才到、姍姍來遲的人」。台灣講登山或行軍時說「脫隊的人」「掉隊的」最貼近。
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
stragglernoun/ˈstɹæɡlə/
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Someone who goes against the direct or proper course, or from the company to which they belong.
- She recounted her life in pre-World War II Eastern Europe and how a ragtag band of Red Army stragglers, escaped prisoners of war and Jewish and gentile Resistance fighters — including some women — harassed the Germans behind the Wehrmacht’s front lines in the forests and swamps of what is now Belarus.
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One who falls behind the rest, for example in a race.
- This isn't the 1970s, when the UK stood out as the European straggler.
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One who roams without any settled direction.
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A migratory animal found away from its usual range.
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A roving vagabond.
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Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.
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Something that stands alone or by itself.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。