| 英语单词 | hindsight |
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| 英美音标 | 英 ['haɪndsaɪt] 美 ['haɪndsaɪt] |
| 中文释义 | n.事后聪明,后见之明;枪的照门 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Hindsight is always better than foresight. (2) Twenty-twenty hindsight can have tremendous value if you accept the hard-won wisdom and move on with life and love. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 后见之明总胜于先见之明。 (2) 当你吸取了来之不易的教训,在生活和情路上继续前行时,后见之明会体现出巨大的价值。 |
| vocabulary简明 | People who are able to look back on the past and understand what happened have hindsight. If you go skating on a frozen lake and it cracks, in hindsight you'd know you should've paid attention to the giant "danger" sign. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Hindsight is like looking behind you to see what just happened (behind sight, get it?). Another way of describing retrospection, hindsight is a useful skill that can be cultivated. Hindsight often refers to a lesson learned from something going wrong. Billy Wilder, the American movie director, once commented wistfully, “Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.” It's much easier to see clearly after something happened than before. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]后见之明;事后聪明 Hindsight is the ability to understand and realize something about an event after it has happened, although you did not understand or realize it at the time. [oft
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