释义 |
Examples:surrender after baring oneself to the waist and tying one's hands behind—look after the elderly and the young—chunks obtained by repeatedly cutting a vegetable diagonally and rotating the vegetable after each cut—New Armies (modernized Qing armies, trained and equipped according Western standards, founded after Japan's victory in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895)—adverse audience reaction: boos and jeers, hissing, catcalls or deliberate applause after a mistake—after all (when all is said and done)—grain kernel (after threshing and winnowing)—(after a number) and a half—(after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state—then (after sth, and not until then)—Peng Dehuai (1898-1974), top communist general, subsequently politician and politburo member, disgraced after attacking Mao's failed policies in 1959, and died after extensive persecution during the Cultural Revolution—military dependents' village (community established in Taiwan for Nationalist soldiers and their dependents after the KMT retreated from the mainland in 1949)—(after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.)—walk a hundred steps after each meal and you will live a long life (proverb)—after all is said and done—look after and train (animals)—commuted death sentence with forced labor and judicial review after two years (PRC) (legal)—look after one's aged parents and arrange proper burial after they die—Tan Zhenlin (1902-1983), PRC revolutionary and military leader, played political role after the cultural revolution—lit. reorganize flags and drums (idiom); to regroup after a setback—cups and dishes in complete disorder (idiom); after a riotous drinking party—Zai Yi (1856-1922), Manchu imperial prince and politician, disgraced after supporting the Boxers—have a smoke after each meal and you will surpass the immortals (proverb)—half willing and half unwilling (idiom); yield after making a show of resistance—light and airy feeling (after a few drinks)—after one's heart (idiom); gratifying and satisfactory—Serbia and Montenegro (after break-up of Yugoslavia in 1992)—woman hired take care of a newborn child and its mother in the month after childbirth—enquire, according to custom, after the name and horoscope of intended bride—Zhang Zhixin (1930-1975) female revolutionary and martyr, who followed the true Marxist-Leninist line as a party member, and was arrested in 1969, murdered in 1975 after opposing the counter-revolutionary party-usurping conspiracies of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, and only rehabilitated posthumously in 1979—(in Taiwan) Han Chinese people other than those who moved Taiwan from mainland China after 1945 and their descendants—Charles Francis Richter (1900-1985), US physicist and seismologist, after whom the Richter scale is named—after hard work and numerous revisions [idiom.]—be looked after in life and given a proper burial thereafter [idiom.]— |