| 英语单词 | after |
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| 英美音标 | 英 ['ɑːftə(r)] 美 ['æftər] |
| 中文释义 | adv.以后；后来 conj.在 ... 以后 prep.在 ... 之后；在后面；关于；追赶；依照 adj.以后的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) The day after, he apologized. (2) They lived happily ever after. (3) After dinner we paired off and went to dance. (4) After travelling for three days I slept for twenty hours at a stretch. (5) C comes after B in the alphabet. (6) They inquired after you. (7) We ran after the thief. (8) We've named the baby after you. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 次日，他道歉了。 (2) 他们後来一直生活得很幸福。 (3) 饭后我们成双成对地跳舞去了。 (4) 连续3天旅行之后，我一连睡了20个小时。 (5) 在字母表中C接在B后面。 (6) 他们问候你。 (7) 我们追赶窃贼。 (8) 我们是依照你的名字给这婴儿取名的。 |
| vocabulary简明 | After is a preposition meaning "later in time" or "behind in space." After many hours of dancing, you'll be sweaty and hungry. |
| vocabulary扩展 | The word after goes all the way back to Sanskrit (meaning "further off" or "beyond"). You can use it in the context of time, as in, "Meet me after dinner and we'll take a walk," or of space, as in, "After you pass the school, you'll see the library on your right." After can also be an adverb. If you like ships, you'll recognize the relationship of after to aft, which means the rear part of the ship. |
| 柯林斯解释 | In addition to the uses shown below, after is used in phrasal verbs such as ‘ask after’, ‘look after’, and ‘take after’. 除下列用法外，after还可用于ask after，look after, take after等短语动词中。 1 [PREP 介词]在（时间、事件）以后 If something happens after a particular date or event, it happens during the period of time that follows that date or event.
2 [PREP 介词]…之后（指做事的先后顺序） If you do one thing after doing another, you do it during the period of time that follows the other thing. [PREP -ing]
3 [PREP 介词]（时间）在…后 You use after when you are talking about time. For example, if something is going to happen during the day after or the weekend after a particular time, it is going to happen during the following day or during the following weekend. [n PREP n] [ADV after v]
4 [PREP 介词]随…之后；跟在…之后 If you go after someone, you follow or chase them.
5 [PREP 介词]追求；搜寻 If you are after something, you are trying to get it.
6 [PREP 介词]朝着（正离去之人喊叫或注视） If you call, shout, or stare after someone, you call, shout, or stare at them as they move away from you.
7 [PREP 介词]为，替（某人做某事） If you do something after someone, you do it for them, because they cannot or will not do it for themselves.
8 [PREP 介词]过了（某地）以后 If you tell someone that one place is a particular distance after another, you mean that it is situated beyond the other place and further away from you.
9 [PREP 介词]（写）在…后面（或下面） If one thing is written after another thing on a page, it is written following it or underneath it.
10 [PREP 介词]（重要性）仅次于，低于 You use after in order to give the most important aspect of something when comparing it with another aspect.
11 [PREP 介词]依照，按照（某人的名字命名） To be named after someone means to be given the same name as them. [BRIT 英]
in AM, use 美国英语用 for 12 [CONVENTION 惯用语]（走路或出入门口时的礼貌用语）您先请 If you say 'after you' to someone, you are being polite and allowing them to go in front of you or through a doorway before you do. [politeness]
13 [PREP 介词]（…点）过（…分） After is used when telling the time. If it is, for example, ten after six, the time is ten minutes past six. [AM 美] 14 after all→see: all ； Usage Note : You use after, afterwards, and later to talk about things that happen following the time when you are speaking, or following a particular event. Expressions such as 'not long' and 'shortly' can also be used with after. After dinner she spoke to him... I returned to England after visiting India... Shortly after, she called me. Afterwards can be used when you do not need to mention the particular time or event. Afterwards we went to a night club. You can also use words such as 'soon' and 'shortly' with afterwards. Soon afterwards, he came to the clinic. You can use later to refer to a time or situation that follows the time when you are speaking. I'll go and see her later. 'A little', 'much', and 'not much' can also be used with later. A little later, the lights went out... I learned all this much later. You can use after, afterwards, or later following a phrase that mentions a period of time, in order to say when something happens. five years after his death ... She wrote about it six years afterwards ... Ten minutes later he left the house. after, afterwards和later都用于谈论晚于说话时间或某事之后发生的事情。not long，shortly等表达方式也可与after连用。例如：After dinner she spoke to him（饭后她对他说话了），I returned to England after visiting India（印度之行结束后我回到了英格兰），Shortly after, she called me（之后不久，她给我打了电话）。无需提及具体时间或事件时，可用afterwards：Afterwards we went to a night club（后来我们去了一家夜总会）。afterwards也可与soon，shortly等词连用：Soon afterwards, he came to the clinic（过了不久，他来到了诊所）。later可用于指说话时间之后的时间或情况。例如，I'll go and see her later（我过阵子会去看她）。a little, much和not much也可与later连用。例如，A little later, the lights went out（过了一会儿，灯灭了），I learned all this much later（很久以后我才得知了这一切）。after, afterwards和later可用于表示一段时间的短语后面，指某事发生的时间：five years after his death（他去世5年之后），She wrote about it six years afterwards（6年之后她撰文谈起了此事），Ten minutes later he left the house（10分钟之后他离开了那座房子）。 15 [PHRASE 短语]一个接一个地；接连地 If you do something to several things one after the other or one after another, you do it to one, then the next, and so on, with no break between your actions.
16 [PHRASE 短语]日复一日/年复一年 If something happens day after day or year after year, it happens every day or every year, for a long time.
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