after
美 [ˈæftər] 
英 [ˈɑːftə(r)]
- adv.以后；后来
- prep.仅次于；追赶；跟随；虽然
- adj.后来的；以后的
- conj.在…以后
- n.〈英俚〉正餐的最后一道食品(如点心,水果等)
- 网络之后；在……之后；在…后面
反义词
英汉双解
1. | （时间）在…后later than sth; following sth in time |
| We'll leave after lunch. 我们将在午饭后动身。 |
| They arrived shortly after 5. 他们是在 5 点钟刚过到达的。 |
| Not long after that he resigned. 那以后不久他就辞职了。 |
| Let's meet the day after tomorrow/the week after next . 咱们后天╱下下周再见。 |
| After winning the prize she became famous overnight. 她获奖后一夜之间成名了。 |
| After an hour I went home(= when an hour had passed) . 一小时之后我回家了。 |
| It's ten after seven in the morning(= 7.10 a.m.) . 现在是早上七点十分。 |
2. | （表示反复不断或一个接着一个）used to show that sth happens many times or continuously |
| day after day of hot weather 日复一日的炎热天气 |
| I've told you time after time not to do that. 我一再告诉过你不要干那件事。 |
3. | 跟随；追赶；在（某人）后面behind sb when they have left; following sb |
| Shut the door after you. 随手关门。 |
| I'm always having to clean up after the children(= clean the place after they have left it dirty and untidy) . 孩子们离开以后，我总得打扫一番。 |
| He ran after her with the book. 他拿着那本书在后面追赶她。 |
| She was left staring after him. 她目不转睛地望着他离去的背影。 |
4. | （按顺序、重要性）在…后面，仅次于next to and following sb/sth in order or importance |
| Your name comes after mine in the list. 在名单上你的名字在我的后面。 |
| He's the tallest, after Richard. 除了理查德，他的个子最高。 |
| After you(= Please go first) . 请先走。 |
| After you with the paper(= Can I have it next?) . 报纸你看完了给我看。 |
5. | 与…对照；与…对比in contrast to sth |
| It was pleasantly cool in the house after the sticky heat outside. 与户外的湿热相比，屋里真是凉爽惬意。 |
6. | 鉴于；由于as a result of or because of sth that has happened |
| I'll never forgive him after what he said. 由于他说了那些话，我永远也不会原谅他。 |
7. | 尽管；虽然despite sth; although sth has happened |
| I can't believe she'd do that, not after all I've done for her. 在我为她做了这一切之后，我无法相信她会那样做。 |
8. | 寻找；追捕trying to find or catch sb/sth |
| The police are after him. 警方正在追捕他。 |
| He's after a job at our place. 他到我们这儿找工作。 |
| She asked after you(= how you were) . 她问候你。 |
10. | 模仿；依照in the style of sb/sth; following the example of sb/sth |
| a painting after Goya 一幅仿戈雅的画 |
| We named the baby ‘Ena’ after her grandmother. 我们以婴儿祖母的名字给婴儿取名“埃娜”。 |
11. | …后的happening or done later than the time or event mentioned |
| after-hours drinking(= after closing time) 打烊时间以后饮酒 |
| an after-school club 课外活动俱乐部 |
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1. | 在…以后at a time later than sth; when sth has finished |
| I'll call you after I've spoken to them. 我和他们谈了以后就给你打电话。 |
| Several years after they'd split up they met again by chance in Paris. 他们分手几年以后在巴黎又偶然相遇。 |
1. | 后来；以后later in time; afterwards |
| That was in 1996. Soon after , I heard that he'd died. 那是在 1996 年。不久以后我听说他死了。 |
| I could come next week, or the week after. 我可能下周来，或者再下下周。 |
| And they all lived happily ever after . 从此以后他们都过着幸福的生活。 |
1. | [obn] 后来的；以后的following; later |
习惯用语
after all
毕竟；终归despite what has been said or expected
| So you made it after all! 你毕竟成功了！ |
（解释或说明理由）别忘了，到底used when you are explaining sth, or giving a reason
| He should have paid. He suggested it, after all. 他本来就应该付款，反正他自己也这么提出。 |
be after doing sth
正要做某事；打算就要做某事to be going to do sth soon; to be intending to do sth soon
刚做了某事to have just done sth
英汉解释
adv. | |
prep. | 1. 〈美〉(...点)过(...分);在...以后 9. 位于...之后;(地位,规模,重要性等)次于;(仅)低于 |
conj. | |
adj. | |
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英英解释
例句
The little bird was found, exhausted but otherwise well, on Sunday after a couple spotted him in a nearby shallow estuary.
周日，一对夫妇在附近的一处浅滩发现了小德克，他看上去十分疲惫，但是健康状况良好。
After that I had five days before the quarter-finals and I tried a few others, but then decided to stick with the first one.
那之后，四分之一赛之前，我有五天时间，我试了试其他几根杆子。但是，最后还是决定使用第一根。
Used like this, after all usually goes at the beginning of a clause.
这样使用，afterall通常放在句首。
I have an intellectual appreciation that mountain-climbing is risky, but I've got to tell myself after 20 years of climbing I'm still alive.
在理智上，我很清楚登山运动是危险的，但是我不得不告诉自己，爬了20年山我仍然健在。
So, apparently one of the survivors of the tomb had been a sorcerer after all.
那么，显然墓穴的生还者已经无论如何都是个法师。
But after attaining Knowledge he will not have to come back to this earth or to any other plane of existence.
但获得了知识以后，他不会被迫回到这个尘世上，或者是去任何存在的地方。
On New Year's Eve, less than a week after the trial, Eduard Kuznetsov was taken from his cell, certain he was going to be shot.
当年的新年前夜，在审判结束不到一周之后，库兹涅佐夫从监牢里被提出，他当时确定自己要被处决了。
It's not hard to understand why Henry Ford loved the Model T just as it was. After all, the sturdy black car had made him rich and famous.
不难理解为什么亨利福特对T模型情有独钟，毕竟是这强悍的黑色汽车让他名利双收。
After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew.
自从尼索林打定主意要在医院里度过战争的余下岁月以后，他便给所有认识的人写信。
I remembered after a few years of passing by the founder, I had the courage to ask him for a meeting.
我记得，和创立者打过几年的招呼之后，我鼓起勇气邀请他对话一次。
After 14 years of matrimony it is beginning to dawn on me that I'm a bad wife.
结婚14年以后，我开始觉得我并不是一个好妻子。
After so many misfortunes, Paul's spirits touched bottom; soon afterwards he began to feel better.
经历了如此多的不幸以后，保罗的情绪低落到了极点；不久以后他才开始感觉好受一些。
"After the quake, my desire to go back and live with my parents grew stronger, " she said.
她说，“地震发生后，我想要回去跟父母同住的愿望更强烈了”。
Imagine trying to get a client to pay your invoice and you only get ambiguous responses days after you ask.
想象一下你试着让客户来支付发票，但却在多天后才得到模棱两可的回复。
After the funeral, he was a constant presence. He made sure that food filled the cupboards, the bills were paid, and the lawn was mowed.
葬礼后，他就经常出现：确保厨子里有食物、账单付清、草坪清理好。
After the kids are in bed and down for the night we do a quick sweep of the play areas to "reset" for the next day.
夜晚，当孩子们都入睡后，我们就快速清理了孩子们的“游乐场”，让它们焕然一新。
Having been away from Chinese studies for a year after graduation, I could feel my vocabulary gradually evaporating.
毕业后的一年，我远离了中文学习，能感到词汇量正在逐渐蒸发。
After I finished my work, he said that he wanted to give me a hand. I thought that his idea was just to carry coals to Newcastle.
我完成任务后，他说他想帮我。我认为他的想法是多此一举。
Those crossing on Saturday hailed the loosening of restrictions as a relief after years of a closure imposed by Israel and Egypt.
在以色列和埃及关闭多年后，星期六过境的这些人赞扬管制松绑让他们宽慰。
After you run these commands, you should be able to see orders in your ACME. ORDERS table as shown in figure 1.
运行了这些命令后，应该能够看到ACME.ORDERS表内的订单，如图1所示。
After a few moments' consideration, he began to speak.
他想了片刻后开始讲话。
After a while, his mother decided to hold another ball, in the hope that the unknown young lady would once more appear.
过了一段时间，他母亲决定再举行一次舞会，希望那位不知姓名的年轻小姐能够再次光临。
Once established at the White House would he be able to leave after a few days.
一旦他在白宫立住了脚，他才能在数日之后离开。
After some general conversation I said that I had some matters I would like to discuss with him personally.
略事寒喧后，我说有些事情想和他单独谈谈。
"About a year and a half ago, " says Mr. Snagsby, strengthened, "he came into our place one morning after breakfast. "
“大约在一年半以前，”斯纳斯比打起精神说道：“有一天早上，刚刚吃过早饭，他上我们这儿来了。”
We came to see that the end of isolation was not such a terrible error or evil after all.
我们洞识孤立状态的终止并不是那么一个可怕的错误或不好的事。
After a pause she said, with a just perceptible chill in her voice: "May asked you to take care of me? "
停了一会儿，她语气略显冷淡地说：“是梅请你来照顾我的吧？”
I waited but she did not say any more, and after a moment I returned rather feebly to the subject of her daughter.
我等待着她说下去，可她却不再开口了。沉默了片刻，我又勉强地将话题转到她女儿身上。
Time after time this afternoon she had searched her recollection of every single moment of the day to find some explanation.
今天下午，她曾一次又一次搜肠刮肚地回忆一天的经过，想找到一个解释。
But, after all, she did not think much about her.
可是，她压根儿没有多想到她。
After a moment of pretended resistance to their wishes, the old man took his pipe from his mouth and thus began his tale.
假惺惺地推辞一番之后，这位老人拿下他嘴里的烟斗，就这样讲起他的故事来。
He made several efforts to creep out of his scrape, but the old man's eye was upon him and he made blunder after blunder.
他几次设法要想逃出窘境，可是那老人的眼睛老盯住他，于是他一次又一次地露了马脚。
On the British Airways Concorde, after luncheon had been served, Celia closed her eyes and marshalled her thoughts.
在英国航空公司的协和式飞机上，送过午饭以后，西莉亚合上了双眼，开始清理脑子里的各种念头。
Without any sense of the complexities of any great task, he boldly assumed one function after another.
他不知餍足地担任一个接一个的职务，但对任何一件艰巨工作的复杂性却毫无所感。
After a while the motion of the train lulled him into a shallow sleep, and he dreamed.
不一会儿，车身的颠簸把他送入梦乡。
I should like part of me to stay there after death as it always did during life.
我希望死后我有一部分留在那里，就象生前一贯的那样。
A soil on which water stands for more than a week after a heavy rain is considered unfit for fruit growing.
在大雨后积水一周以上的地方，不适宜果树生长。
Chen did not dare a response. After a minute, he said, "I made a mistake. "
小陈语塞了。过了一会，才说：“我错了。”
The mole was busy trying to quiet the old horse, which he succeeded in doing after a time.
鼹鼠在忙着安慰那老马，不一会儿他就把马调顺好了。
He took the back seat of the carriage, after a feeble bow or two, and speech of thanks, polite to the last, and resolute in doing his duty.
他有气无力地鞠了一两个躬，说了许多感谢的话，表现了始终如一的礼数和尽责到底的决心，这才坐上马车的后座。
He stopped for a minute, for the mere act of speaking was fatiguing to him after the excitement of the last few weeks.
他说到这里，停了一停，因为经过最近几个星期的刺激，他连讲话的力气都没有了。
After only a few years of marriage, Tom and Mary began to grow apart.
汤姆和玛丽结婚仅仅几年感情就产生了隔阂。
It was unlawful for a priest of the Church of England, after the death of his first wife, to take a second.
信奉英国宗教的教士，凡有断弦的不应再娶，若是再娶就是违律。
I decided to leave Jim to his own devices after he had refused to accept any of my suggestions.
在他拒绝接受我的建议后，我决定任其自由。
He agreed to accept my advice after I had earnestly laboured with him for the whole morning.
在我恳切地劝了他一上午以后，他接受了我的建议。
After the steel stopped falling he was still alive and he raised his head and looked across the bridge.
钢铁碎片落定之后，他还活着，他抬头望对面的桥。
After the war there might be a bit of stink.
到战后说不定还会有一点流言蜚语。
After all these years we learn we did not know each other in fullest measure, you and I.
我们过了这些年，才发觉彼此尚不深知。
They ate their dinner quietly, for to all it was an effort to speak, and after one or two attempts they had subsided into silence.
他们静静地吃着，因为每个人都觉得不易开口，勉强说了一两句，大家便不作声了。
He said he would appeal after being found guilty on four counts of murder.
法庭判决他犯有四项谋杀罪，他表示要上诉。
After checking into a motel room in Beaver, the exhausted trucker collapsed on the bed in his sooty clothes and phoned his wife.
在海哩的汽车旅馆入住之后，这个疲惫的卡车司机穿着他乌黑的衣服摊在床上，打电话给他的妻子。
Deicer: a device used on an aircraft to keep the wings and propeller free from ice or to remove ice after it has formed.
防冰装置，去冰器：飞机上的一种装置，用来防止机翼和推进器上结冰，或者在结冰后除冰。
After the Agnew nomination was announced, what had been a peaceful gathering against poverty turned into a riot.
当宣布提名阿格纽时，本来是反对贫穷的和平集会演变为一场骚乱。
This comes just a year after he held his nose and issued $10bn in shares to help buy railroad BNSF.
就在一年前，他才捏着鼻子发行了100亿美元的股票，把融资所得用作收购铁路公司BNSF的部分资金。
Beethoven probably began to go deaf after 1797, but he tried to keep it a secret, while consulting doctors and trying various remedies.
贝多芬可能在1797年开始耳聋，但他保守着秘密，一边求医问药。
If changes are made to the tunnel after it has been built, it may be necessary to make a fan revision.
在风洞建成以后，如果要进行修改，那么风扇也可能要更新。
Police say Stephen Grant confessed after initially making a public appeal for his wife to come home.
警察表示公开告知其妻子回家后，斯蒂芬•格兰特才认罪。
My mother in-law proudly told me that my son asked her to keep the 1, 000 yuan with her after he met her.
婆婆骄傲地告诉我，儿子见到她之后，请她帮着保存那一千元。
More than ten people died across the country after being injected with the antibiotic clindamycin, which had not been sterilized properly.
在注射未彻底消毒的抗菌药物克拉霉素后，全国有十数人因此丧身。
tears blurred her eyes, after a blink, beginning to drop down.
眼泪模糊了她的双眼，她眨了眨眼睛，泪水劈劈啪啪地掉了下来。
Cole, 24, has been a regular in recent weeks and is determined to go from strength to strength after scoring against Newcastle on Saturday.
二十四岁的科尔已经在最近的几周里固定了自己在球队首发中的位置，而且通过周六对纽卡斯尔的进球进一步巩固了自己的继续首发的决心。
After Beijing bid farewell to the 2008 Olympics, celebrations broke out in Britain to usher in London's turn to host.
在北京向2008年奥运会告别之后，英国开始举行庆祝活动，着手准备伦敦主办下届奥运会的活动。
I told her that I'd love to, but I couldn't surf. After she left I cursed myself for not seizing the opportunity to be with her.
我告诉尽管我很愿意去，但是我不会玩。她走了。我责备我自己失去了一个和她一起的机会。
After a brief, significant pause, "But he talks as good English as you or me, " said he.
他意味深长地停了一下接着说：“可是他的英语说得跟你、我一样好。”
To make sure that we would at least be at the front of the queue, we got to the border at 7am, shortly after its opening.
为了确保至少排在队伍前面，我们早晨7点就到达了边境处，这里刚开门不久。
Barely a year after she set up the FI Group, later called Xansa, she gave birth to her only child, Giles.
就在她创立Xansa公司的前身FI集团的一年后，Stephanie诞下了她的独子Giles。
Prisoners often are allowed to see a lawyer only after their interrogations .
犯人只有在审讯完之后才能见到他的律师。
I forgot my lie to my mum soon and went to bed at night after having a good time for the whole afternoon.
打电话的事，我很快就忘了。玩耍了一个下午，直到晚上熄灯睡觉。
Everything we think of as a Flannery O'Connor story came after she had been diagnosed as having lupus and settled in to life in the South.
我们津津乐道的弗兰纳里·奥康纳小说都是她被诊断出患有狼疮并返回南方定居之后的作品。
Bonus point: I sometimes wonder why I'm only able to edit my own writing after it has been printed out, in 3-D form.
另外：我有时会纳闷，为什么只有拿着实实在在的纸，看着被打印的稿子时我才能修改文章。
I had a great many adventures after this, but I was young in the business, and did not know how to manage.
此后我又有许多次的冒险，但是我干这事的经历很浅，不知道怎么办。
It was as if the wind and rain had lulled at last, after a long and fearful storm.
这时好象在长久而可怖的狂风暴雨之后终于得到了宁静似的。
After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew.
自从尼索林打定主意要在医院里度过战争的余下岁月以后，他便给所有认识的人写信。
After forty years in politics I think it's time for me to call it a day.
从政四十年，我想现在也该退休了。
Indeed, after serious thinking of these things, I should be very melancholy, and sometimes it would last a great while.
的确，我每次把这些事情认真地想一下，就感到闷闷不乐，有时好半天都排解不开。
One day, about a month after the inquiry, Arthur suddenly decided to speak to his father on the subject.
法院审理后大约一个月，有一天，阿瑟突然决定和父亲谈谈这个问题。
"After all, " he thought, "the poor chap will get over it; not the first time such a thing has happened in this little city! "
“反正，”他心里想，“这个家伙会对付得了的；这种事情在这个小城市里也并不是破天荒！”
I might have done it before now if I had not guessed what he was after, and been on my guard.
要是我没有看透他的用意，而且小心提防的话，可能早就中他的计了。
After a brief, significant pause, "But he talks as good English as you or me, " said he.
他意味深长地停了一下接着说：“可是他的英语说得跟你、我一样好。”
After a moment's hesitation, the young man stretched out his hands to meet it.
年轻人迟疑了一会儿才伸出手来迎接。
