afterthought

US [ˈæftərˌθɔt]
UK [ˈɑːftə(r)ˌθɔːt]
  • n.事后想法
  • Web事后产生的想法；事后的想法；事后的思考
Plural Form：afterthoughts  

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afterthought
n.
1.
事后想法，事后添加的事物（常未经周密考虑）a thing that is thought of, said or added later, and is often not carefully planned
They only invited Jack and Sarah as an afterthought .
他们邀请杰克和萨拉不过是事后的主意。

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AllAll,事后想法事后想法,事后产生的想法事后产生的想法,事后的想法事后的想法,事后的思考事后的思考
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1.
He wrote me a cold letter; even the inquiry about my health looked as if it had been added on as an afterthought.
他给我写了一封非常冷淡的信，连信上问候我的话看来都好像是后来加上去的。
tā gěi wǒ xiě le yī fēng fēi cháng lěng dàn de xìn , lián xìn shàng wèn hòu wǒ de huà kàn lái dōu hǎo xiàng shì hòu lái jiā shang qù de 。
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2.
You could see that the last part of the report had just been grafted on as an afterthought.
你可以看出，这份报告的最后部分像是事后想起加上去的。
nǐ kě yǐ kàn chū , zhè fèn bào gào de zuì hòu bù fen xiàng shì shì hòu xiǎng qǐ jiā shang qù de 。
3.
I first saw the Eskimo, and will, I suppose, always first see what I first saw there, as if the Indian was mere afterthought.
我第一眼看到爱斯基摩人，那么我猜每次再看到也会第一时间想起它，至于印第安人永远只能是事后烟。
wǒ dì yī yǎn kàn dào ài sī jī mó rén , nà me wǒ cāi měi cì zài kàn dào yě huì dì yì shí jiān xiǎng qǐ tā , zhì yú yìn dì ān rén yǒng yuǎn zhǐ néng shì shì hòu yān 。
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4.
Mary was a bit of an afterthought her brothers and sisters are all much older than her.
玛丽算是後添的--她哥哥姐姐都比她大得多。
mǎ lì suàn shì hòu tiān de -- tā gē gē jiě jie dōu bǐ tā dà de duō 。
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5.
Service management and monitoring should be considered at Design-Time, not as an afterthought associated solely with IT operations.
服务管理和监视应该是在设计时考虑的问题，不应该是只与IT操作相关联的后期问题。
fú wù guǎn lǐ hé jiān shì yīng gāi shì zài shè jì shí kǎo lǜ de wèn tí , bù yīng gāi shì zhǐ yǔ IT cāo zuò xiāng guān lián de hòu qī wèn tí 。
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6.
Software is often an afterthought from the consumer's end, but when you're at the front lines this topic is very important.
软件通常是根据用户的需要而产生的，但如果你工作在（网页设计）第一线，这个话题就对你很重要了。
ruǎn jiàn tōng cháng shì gēn jù yòng hù de xū yào ér chǎn shēng de , dàn rú guǒ nǐ gōng zuò zài ( wǎng yè shè jì ) dì yī xiàn , zhè ge huà tí jiù duì nǐ hěn zhòng yào le 。
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7.
At worst, Rickenbacher said rushing to respond with a gift could end up looking like an afterthought.
Rickenbacher说，最糟糕的情况是，匆忙还礼会看起来就像你是后来才想到的。
Rickenbacher shuō , zuì zāo gāo de qíng kuàng shì , cōng máng huán lǐ huì kàn qǐ lái jiù xiàng nǐ shì hòu lái cái xiǎng dào de 。
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8.
Revision is not just an afterthought that gets only as much time as you have at the end of an assignment.
作品的修改不仅仅是在初稿完成后留出尽可能多的时间来进行事后诸葛亮的事。
zuò pǐn de xiū gǎi bù jǐn jǐn shì zài chū gǎo wán chéng hòu liú chū jìn kě néng duō de shí jiān lái jìn xíng shì hòu zhū gě liàng de shì 。
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9.
We all design our HTML pages to look good on the screen, but printing those Web pages is usually an afterthought.
我们设计HTML页面都是为了使它们在屏幕上看起来很好，但打印这些Web页面却往往是事后才想到的事。
wǒ men shè jì HTML yè miàn dōu shì wèi le shǐ tā men zài píng mù shàng kàn qǐ lái hěn hǎo , dàn dǎ yìn zhè xiē Web yè miàn què wǎng wǎng shì shì hòu cái xiǎng dào de shì 。
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10.
Maybe it is the suspect who was trying to destroy any evidence, as an afterthought.
也许这是嫌疑犯在事后考虑之后，企图毁灭证据。
yě xǔ zhè shì xián yí fàn zài shì hòu kǎo lǜ zhī hòu , qǐ tú huǐ miè zhèng jù 。
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