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单词 retrospect
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retrospect
noun
uk
/ˈret.rə.spekt/us
/ˈret.rə.spekt/
in retrospect
C2
thinkingnow about something in the past:
回顾；回想
In retrospect, Ithinkmymarriagewasdoomedfrom thebeginning.现在回头看，我觉得我的婚姻从一开始就注定要破裂。
I'msuremyuniversitydaysseemhappierin retrospect than they really were.我敢说，回顾我的大学时光，看起来肯定要比当时实际生活幸福。
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retrospection
(Definition ofretrospectfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

retrospect| American Dictionary

retrospect
noun
us
/ˈre·trəˌspekt/
anactofthinkingabout the past:
In retrospect,(=thinkingabout the past now)Ithinktheirmarriagewasdoomedfrom thebeginning.
(Definition ofretrospectfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofretrospect

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Both highlighted the intellectual capacities and famous works of the celebrated persons and then affirmed these observations inretrospectby looking at the brain.
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Most of what was learned was, inretrospect, unsurprising.
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Inretrospect, one should know better than to believe that archives can provide a ready answer to every historical question.
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Inretrospect, however, the anatomy could be distinguished on preoperative echocardiograms.
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There is also a suggestion that it is only inretrospectthat the authenticity of an emotional attachment can be judged.
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What evidence can be brought to bear, and what are the chances, inretrospect?
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Only inretrospectdid another view dawn on him - one that could reconcile his most unreconciled ending as historical necessity.
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These twin constraints seriously limited war-time efforts to maximize palm oil production for export and, inretrospect, failure was inevitable.
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Inretrospect, he is proud to have avoided attributing a unidirectional impact of science on society or of social and economic forces on science.
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Inretrospect, the patient should have been submitted to surgery several months earlier.
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Inretrospect, the problem was probably detected late as a consequence of preoccupation with retrieval of the embolized device.
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Our experimental design was not, inretrospect, ideal with respect to the high/low diversity comparison.
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Inretrospect, we would do well to consider the scars he received and not simply the battle he won.
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Inretrospect, however, the cumulative impact of growth on output is a fact.
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Its final product is always death, an inevitability that is usually noticed only inretrospect.
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