| 词汇 | afterthought |
| 释义 | afterthought noun[ Cusually singular ] uk /ˈɑːf.tə.θɔːt/ us /ˈæf.tɚ.θɑːt/ an idea, thought, or plan that was not originally intended but is thought of at a later time: 事后想法;事后添加的事物 She only asked me to her party as an afterthought.她原本没有请我去参加她的聚会，只是后来才想起来的。 The pillars seem to have been added to the entrance as an afterthought.这些柱子好像是完工后在入口处添加上去的。 Ideas, concepts and theories abstract abstraction accepted wisdom anthropocentrism anti-Darwinian Darwinist determinist Dianetics exceptionalism motif musings natalism non-dogmatic non-empirical sacred cow social Darwinism straw man supersensible tenet the domino theory afterthought | American Dictionaryafterthought noun[ Cusually sing ] us/ˈæf·tərˌθɔt/ an idea or plan that was not originally intended: Pine included the song almost as an afterthought on his last album. Examples of afterthoughtafterthought In a collection of essays that is otherwise excellent in making links between theoretical and practical observations, this afterthought is a constant haunting presence. The policy is neither an afterthought nor an expensive irrelevance, but the manifestation of the unique place of agriculture in the psyche of industrial societies. Finally, one amino acid looks like an afterthought : the pathway to histidine is an extension of nucleotide synthesis and takes 26 steps in all. The weakest section of the book is that addressing educational issues, which seems to have been included as an afterthought. Often the appeal to national pride was too successful, with scientific objects obscured or reduced to an afterthought. Now the pretentious sentences and the qualifying afterthoughts, all that hedging with provisos so typical of science talk - all that was now superfluous. Materialisation is not an afterthought but part of the concept. Political considerations and the availability of funds drive many newly commissioned services, and their evaluation is frequently an afterthought. Unfortunately, the concluding chapter on the role of advertising suffers by comparison and has the feeling of being an afterthought. A since-clause might be postposed, almost as an afterthought, in case the speaker seeks to justify, post hoc, the content of the main clause. Almost as an afterthought he notes that the pronoun what does it too. These treatments appear to be afterthoughts with no real bearing on the issue. It introduced economic motives only as an afterthought. The instrument is deliberately out of place amongst the predominant wind, and its series of musical afterthoughts only heightens this feeling. As an afterthought, they may also enhance normal abilities. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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