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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary

after ['ɒːftər]
  1. 1. preposition (in time) 在…以后
    She arrived just after breakfast.
    刚好在早饭后到。
  2. 2. preposition (in place,order) 在…后面
    I wrote my signature after Penny's.
    我把名字签在彭妮后面
  3. 3. adverb (afterwards) 以后
    Soon after, he began preparing the meal.
    不久以后,他开始准备饭菜
  4. 4. conjunction (once) 在…以后
    They felt ill after they had eaten.
    他们吃完后感到不舒服
    the day after tomorrow
    后天
    it's ten after eight
    [US] 现在是8点过10分
  5. 5. conjunction 英 = past
    day after day/year after year
    日复一日/年复一年
    to call/shout/stare after sb
    某人身后叫/喊/瞪眼
    the second biggest, after Germany
    紧随德国之后的第二大
    to clean/tidy/clear up after sb
    某人打扫/整理/清理
    to be after sb
    追逐某人
    The police are after him.
    警察追缉他。
    to be after sth
    想得到某物
    to ask after sb
    询问某人情况
    to be named after sb/sth
    [BRIT] 以某人/某物的名字命名
    after all
    毕竟
    after you!
    您先请!
    after doing sth
    做完某事后
    after flying to London
    飞抵伦敦

Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary (1 result)

after [ˈɑːftər]
  1. 1. adverb (指时间上)之后以后后来
    After I ate that heavy meal, I became very sleepy.
    饱餐一顿之后,我就很困了。
  2. 2. adverb (指位置上)在后面,在后方
    It's after the fifth book on the shelf, you will see it.
    它在书架上第五本书的后面,你会找到的。
    And Jill came tumbling after.
    之后吉尔跌跌撞撞地来了。
  3. 3. preposition (指时间上)在……之后,在……以后
  4. 4. preposition (指位置上)在……后面,在……之后
  5. 5. preposition 鉴于由于
  6. 6. preposition 寻找追寻追随
  7. 7. preposition 尽管虽然
  8. 8. preposition 亚于次于低于
  9. 9. preposition 仿照模仿效仿
  10. 10. preposition (为了纪念而)以……命名
  11. 11. preposition 关于涉及
  12. 12. adjective 以后的,随后的,后来
    During this time all on board kept aft, as the after part of the ship still continued to be safe.
    这段时间内,船上所有的人都要待在船尾因为船尾部分仍然是安全的。
  13. 13. conjunction 在……以后

Macmillan Dictionary - Simpler Definitions (1 result)

after [ˈæftər]
  1. 1. adverb, conjunction, preposition at a later time
  2. 2. adverb, conjunction, preposition at a later position in a list or piece of writing
  3. 3. adverb, conjunction, preposition farther along a road, railroad, etc.
  4. 4. adverb, conjunction, preposition when someone leaves or has left
  5. 5. adverb, conjunction, preposition considering what happened in the past
  6. 6. adverb, conjunction, preposition trying to catch or get someone/something
  7. 7. adverb, conjunction, preposition if you name a person or thing after someone, you give them the same name

Example Search

She must have got into his head after after all.
毕竟她得明白这一点。
About a month after meeting Jayne, I drove her home after a party. [Source: Web Examples ]
结识杰思大约一个月后,某次开完晚会,我开车送她回家。
Three years later, after filling laboratory books with page after page of failed experiments, Baekeland finally developed a material that he dubbed in his notebooks ' Bakelite'. [Source: Web Examples ]
三年后,在实验室的记录本上记满了一页又一页的失败试验后,贝克兰终于制造出了一种他在记录本上昵称为'Bakelite(酚醛塑料)'的材料。
Japan's Nippon has even invoked the supernatural by naming one boat after an Indian god of war - and another after a god of speed. [Source: Web Examples ]
来自日本的日本挑战号甚至祈求上天的帮助,他们用印第安神话中战神与速度之神的名字为两只帆船命名。
one day after another=day after day [Source: nciku_tw ]
日复一日
More than twenty years after it introduced its one-child policy, China is keeping its promise, allowing only-children who marry each other to have a second child.
在宣布独生子女政策后的二十多年以来,中国政府一直履行着承诺,允许由独生子女组成的家庭有第二个孩子。
After a 2km swim, we felt tired.
游了两千米后,我们都累了。
She takes after her mother.
她长得像她妈妈。
He's always been difficult, he takes after his father.
他像他爸爸,不怎么好相处。

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