| 释义 |
Examples:too late for regrets (idiom); It is useless repent after the event.—nine periods of nine days each after winter solstice, the coldest time of the year—definitive conclusion on the coffin lid (idiom); You can only judge a person's merits or demerits after death.—Corpus Christi (Catholic festival on second Thursday after Whit Sunday)—beat a tiger from the front door, only to have a wolf come in at the back (idiom); fig. facing one problem after another—Ptolemy, kings of Egypt after the partition of Alexander the Great's Empire in 305 BC—adverse audience reaction: boos and jeers, hissing, catcalls or deliberate applause after a mistake—lose one's life savings (e.g. after a bankruptcy)—look after the needs of (a person or an animal)—(after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state—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—particle placed after each item in a list of examples—spoilt tea, leftover food (idiom); remains after a meal—(after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.)—May you have peace year after year (New Year's greeting)—housekeeper who looks after old people with no children or whose children do not live with them—hard forget even after one's teeth fall out (idiom); to remember a benefactor as long as one lives—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—Zhang Hua (1958-1982), student held up as a martyr after he died saving an old peasant from a septic tank—structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc—(after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker) interj—Meniere's disease (loss of balance after stroke)—saying in which the second part, uttered after a pause or totally left out, is the intended meaning of the allegory presented in the first part—protocol of Beijing of 1901 ending the Eight-power allied force intervention after the Boxer uprising—death cannot wipe out the crimes (idiom); dreadful crimes that rankled even after the perpetrator is dead—wise after the event (idiom); with hindsight, one should have predicted it—(polite) thank you for your trouble (used when asking a favor or after having received one)—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—have adulterous relations after marriage (of women) [idiom.]—it is hard become frugal after becoming accustomed to luxury [idiom.]—be looked after in life and given a proper burial thereafter [idiom.]—lit. chrysanthemums after the Double Ninth Festival [idiom.]— |