afterthought的意思|afterthought的解释-里氏词典

afterthought ['æftɚ`θɔt]

n. 事后的想法

Just as an afterthought why not ask Jim?
这是事後想起的--为什么不问问吉姆呢?
Mary was a bit of an afterthought her brothers and sisters are all much older than her.
玛丽算是後添的--她哥哥姐姐都比她大得多.
The film was made first and the music was added as an afterthought.
这部电影是先拍摄画面的, 音乐是後加上的.

afterthought

[ noun ]

thinking again about a choice previously made

<noun.cognition>

he had second thoughts about his purchase

an addition that was not included in the original plan

<noun.artifact>

the garage was an afterthought

Afterthought \Aft"er*thought`\, n.
1. Reflection after an act; later or subsequent thought.

2. an action taken after another action and related to the
first action, which would normally or optimally be done
along with the first action; -- as, to do something as an
afterthought.
[PJC]

3. a feature or part added to a device, not thought of in its
original design.
[PJC]

About the only bright spot was building materials, a business CSR got into almost as an afterthought when it was looking for something to do with the cane-fiber byproduct of its sugar mills and experimented with using it in wallboard.
An advocate of buying these funds in the aftermarket, Drake Capital's Mr. Samuels, calls the offering the "slaughter," and the aftermarket the "afterthought."
The production designs by Neil Peter Jampolis are meager and unnecessary, looking as if they were an afterthought, added only to spruce up the show for its move to Broadway after a run of several months at a Greenwich Village nightclub.
As if summitry were an afterthought, he kept President Bush waiting at the White House late this morning while he answered questions from congressional leaders who accepted his invitation for breakfast at the Soviet Embassy.
Then, as an afterthought, 'but we struggled under Labour'. Tony has been impressed with the way Mr Paddy Ashdown has handled the Liberal Democrat campaign.
A recent case in Pennsylvania suggests that state and local judges may soon be subject to intimidation by activists who demand results first, relegating the rule of law to an afterthought.
The habitual black clothes were almost an afterthought: Orbison's wife says unimaginatively 'You look great in black, Roy.' Orbison's sombre life bears an exact relation to the songs.
The original concept of two 'superholdings' is believed to have been deliberately tossed into the closing minutes of a Friday night cabinet meeting virtually as an afterthought.
Little effort was spent to explain increasingly ambitious goals to the American public, and consultations with Congress were at most a grudging afterthought.
Showing a guest out, he pauses and asks, as an afterthought, if she would like to meet a few of his friends.
Others fault that group for exploiting sheer strangeness or violence to gain attention, with screenwriting only an afterthought. Sundance's strength this year lay in its documentary competition.
It was an afterthought.
California political leaders of both parties support the change, saying it would transform the primary from a political afterthought in the presidential sweepstakes to what could be the dominant early primary.

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