| 正面 | 5725.aftermath 英 ['ɑːftəmæθ]美 ['æftəmæθ]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1. Instrument comes from the same source as instruct.2. instruct => instrument.3. instruere "arrange, inform, teach," literally "to build, erect," from in- "on" + struere "to pile, build" (see structure).4. => 'tool, equipment' => musical instrument.n. 后果；余波 例句： 1. A lot of rebuilding took place in the aftermath of the war.战后进行了大量的重建工作。 aftermath 后果，余波after,在后。-math,割草，拟声词，同mow。原指割的第二遍草，即质量比较差的草，引申比喻义后果，余波。 aftermathaftermath: [16] Originally, and literally, an aftermath was a second crop of grass or similar grazing vegetation, grown after an earlier crop in the same season had been harvested. Already by the mid 17th century it had taken on the figurative connotations of ‘resulting condition’ which are today its only living sense. The -math element comes from Old English mǣth ‘mowing’, a noun descended from the Germanic base *mǣ, source of English mow.=> mowaftermath (n.)1520s, originally a second crop of grass grown after the first had been harvested, from after + -math, a dialectal word, from Old English mæð "a mowing, cutting of grass" (see math (n.2)). Figurative sense by 1650s. Compare French regain "aftermath," from re- + Old French gain, gaain "grass which grows in meadows that have been mown," from Frankish or some other Germanic source similar to Old High German weida "grass, pasture"" |