after-
美 [æft?r] 
英 [ɑ?ft?(r)]
- adv.以后；后來
- prep.僅次于；追趕；跟隨；雖然
- adj.后來的；以后的
- conj.在…以后
- n.〈英俚〉正餐的最后一道食品(如點心,水果等)
英漢解釋
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，一對夫婦在附近的一處淺灘發現了小德克，他看上去十分疲憊，但是健康狀況良好。
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，四分之一賽之前，我有五天時間，我試了試其他幾根桿子。但是，最后還是決定使用第一根。
Used like this, after all usually goes at the beginning of a clause.
這樣使用，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，我很清楚登山運動是危險的，但是我不得不告訴自己，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，顯然墓穴的生還者已經無論如何都是個法師。
But after attaining Knowledge he will not have to come back to this earth or to any other plane of existence.
但獲得了知識以后，他不會被迫回到這個塵世上，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.
當年的新年前夜，在審判結束不到一周之后，庫茲涅佐夫從監牢里被提出，他當時確定自己要被處決了。
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.
不難理解為什么亨利福特對T模型情有獨鐘，畢竟是這強悍的黑色汽車讓他名利雙收。
After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew.
自從尼索林打定主意要在醫院里度過戰爭的余下歲月以后，他便給所有認識的人寫信。
I remembered after a few years of passing by the founder, I had the courage to ask him for a meeting.
我記得，和創立者打過幾年的招呼之后，我鼓起勇氣邀請他對話一次。
After 14 years of matrimony it is beginning to dawn on me that I'm a bad wife.
結婚14年以后，我開始覺得我并不是一個好妻子。
After so many misfortunes, Paul's spirits touched bottom; soon afterwards he began to feel better.
經歷了如此多的不幸以后，保羅的情緒低落到了極點；不久以后他才開始感覺好受一些。
"After the quake, my desire to go back and live with my parents grew stronger, " she said.
她說，“地震發生后，我想要回去跟父母同住的愿望更強烈了”。
Imagine trying to get a client to pay your invoice and you only get ambiguous responses days after you ask.
想象一下你試著讓客戶來支付發票，但卻在多天后才得到模棱兩可的回復。
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.
葬禮后，他就經常出現：確保廚子里有食物、賬單付清、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，當孩子們都入睡后，我們就快速清理了孩子們的“游樂場”，讓它們煥然一新。
Having been away from Chinese studies for a year after graduation, I could feel my vocabulary gradually evaporating.
畢業后的一年，我遠離了中文學習，能感到詞匯量正在逐漸蒸發。
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.
我完成任務后，他說他想幫我。我認為他的想法是多此一舉。
Those crossing on Saturday hailed the loosening of restrictions as a relief after years of a closure imposed by Israel and Egypt.
在以色列和埃及關閉多年后，星期六過境的這些人贊揚管制松綁讓他們寬慰。
After you run these commands, you should be able to see orders in your ACME. ORDERS table as shown in figure 1.
運行了這些命令后，應該能夠看到ACME.ORDERS表內的訂單，如圖1所示。
After a few moments' consideration, he began to speak.
他想了片刻后開始講話。
After a while, his mother decided to hold another ball, in the hope that the unknown young lady would once more appear.
過了一段時間，他母親決定再舉行一次舞會，希望那位不知姓名的年輕小姐能夠再次光臨。
Once established at the White House would he be able to leave after a few days.
一旦他在白宮立住了腳，他才能在數日之后離開。
After some general conversation I said that I had some matters I would like to discuss with him personally.
略事寒喧后，我說有些事情想和他單獨談談。
"About a year and a half ago, " says Mr. Snagsby, strengthened, "he came into our place one morning after breakfast. "
“大約在一年半以前，”斯納斯比打起精神說道：“有一天早上，剛剛吃過早飯，他上我們這兒來了。”
We came to see that the end of isolation was not such a terrible error or evil after all.
我們洞識孤立狀態的終止并不是那么一個可怕的錯誤或不好的事。
After a pause she said, with a just perceptible chill in her voice: "May asked you to take care of me? "
停了一會兒，她語氣略顯冷淡地說：“是梅請你來照顧我的吧？”
I waited but she did not say any more, and after a moment I returned rather feebly to the subject of her daughter.
我等待著她說下去，可她卻不再開口了。沉默了片刻，我又勉強地將話題轉到她女兒身上。
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，她曾一次又一次搜腸刮肚地回憶一天的經過，想找到一個解釋。
But, after all, she did not think much about her.
可是，她壓根兒沒有多想到她。
After a moment of pretended resistance to their wishes, the old man took his pipe from his mouth and thus began his tale.
假惺惺地推辭一番之后，這位老人拿下他嘴里的煙斗，就這樣講起他的故事來。
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.
他幾次設法要想逃出窘境，可是那老人的眼睛老盯住他，于是他一次又一次地露了馬腳。
On the British Airways Concorde, after luncheon had been served, Celia closed her eyes and marshalled her thoughts.
在英國航空公司的協和式飛機上，送過午飯以后，西莉亞合上了雙眼，開始清理腦子里的各種念頭。
Without any sense of the complexities of any great task, he boldly assumed one function after another.
他不知饜足地擔任一個接一個的職務，但對任何一件艱巨工作的復雜性卻毫無所感。
After a while the motion of the train lulled him into a shallow sleep, and he dreamed.
不一會兒，車身的顛簸把他送入夢鄉。
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，就象生前一貫的那樣。
A soil on which water stands for more than a week after a heavy rain is considered unfit for fruit growing.
在大雨后積水一周以上的地方，不適宜果樹生長。
Chen did not dare a response. After a minute, he said, "I made a mistake. "
小陳語塞了。過了一會，才說：“我錯了。”
The mole was busy trying to quiet the old horse, which he succeeded in doing after a time.
鼴鼠在忙著安慰那老馬，不一會兒他就把馬調順好了。
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.
他有氣無力地鞠了一兩個躬，說了許多感謝的話，表現了始終如一的禮數和盡責到底的決心，這才坐上馬車的后座。
He stopped for a minute, for the mere act of speaking was fatiguing to him after the excitement of the last few weeks.
他說到這里，停了一停，因為經過最近幾個星期的刺激，他連講話的力氣都沒有了。
After only a few years of marriage, Tom and Mary began to grow apart.
湯姆和瑪麗結婚僅僅幾年感情就產生了隔閡。
It was unlawful for a priest of the Church of England, after the death of his first wife, to take a second.
信奉英國宗教的教士，凡有斷弦的不應再娶，若是再娶就是違律。
I decided to leave Jim to his own devices after he had refused to accept any of my suggestions.
在他拒絕接受我的建議后，我決定任其自由。
He agreed to accept my advice after I had earnestly laboured with him for the whole morning.
在我懇切地勸了他一上午以后，他接受了我的建議。
After the steel stopped falling he was still alive and he raised his head and looked across the bridge.
鋼鐵碎片落定之后，他還活著，他抬頭望對面的橋。
After the war there might be a bit of stink.
到戰后說不定還會有一點流言蜚語。
After all these years we learn we did not know each other in fullest measure, you and I.
我們過了這些年，才發覺彼此尚不深知。
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.
他們靜靜地吃著，因為每個人都覺得不易開口，勉強說了一兩句，大家便不作聲了。
He said he would appeal after being found guilty on four counts of murder.
法庭判決他犯有四項謀殺罪，他表示要上訴。
After checking into a motel room in Beaver, the exhausted trucker collapsed on the bed in his sooty clothes and phoned his wife.
在海哩的汽車旅館入住之后，這個疲憊的卡車司機穿著他烏黑的衣服攤在床上，打電話給他的妻子。
Deicer: a device used on an aircraft to keep the wings and propeller free from ice or to remove ice after it has formed.
防冰裝置，去冰器：飛機上的一種裝置，用來防止機翼和推進器上結冰，或者在結冰后除冰。
After the Agnew nomination was announced, what had been a peaceful gathering against poverty turned into a riot.
當宣布提名阿格紐時，本來是反對貧窮的和平集會演變為一場騷亂。
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，他才捏著鼻子發行了100億美元的股票，把融資所得用作收購鐵路公司BNSF的部分資金。
Beethoven probably began to go deaf after 1797, but he tried to keep it a secret, while consulting doctors and trying various remedies.
貝多芬可能在1797年開始耳聾，但他保守著秘密，一邊求醫問藥。
If changes are made to the tunnel after it has been built, it may be necessary to make a fan revision.
在風洞建成以后，如果要進行修改，那么風扇也可能要更新。
Police say Stephen Grant confessed after initially making a public appeal for his wife to come home.
警察表示公開告知其妻子回家后，斯蒂芬?格蘭特才認罪。
My mother in-law proudly told me that my son asked her to keep the 1, 000 yuan with her after he met her.
婆婆驕傲地告訴我，兒子見到她之后，請她幫著保存那一千元。
More than ten people died across the country after being injected with the antibiotic clindamycin, which had not been sterilized properly.
在注射未徹底消毒的抗菌藥物克拉霉素后，全國有十數人因此喪身。
tears blurred her eyes, after a blink, beginning to drop down.
眼淚模糊了她的雙眼，她眨了眨眼睛，淚水劈劈啪啪地掉了下來。
Cole, 24, has been a regular in recent weeks and is determined to go from strength to strength after scoring against Newcastle on Saturday.
二十四歲的科爾已經在最近的幾周里固定了自己在球隊首發中的位置，而且通過周六對紐卡斯爾的進球進一步鞏固了自己的繼續首發的決心。
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年奧運會告別之后，英國開始舉行慶祝活動，著手準備倫敦主辦下屆奧運會的活動。
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.
我告訴盡管我很愿意去，但是我不會玩。她走了。我責備我自己失去了一個和她一起的機會。
After a brief, significant pause, "But he talks as good English as you or me, " said he.
他意味深長地停了一下接著說：“可是他的英語說得跟你、我一樣好。”
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.
為了確保至少排在隊伍前面，我們早晨7點就到達了邊境處，這里剛開門不久。
Barely a year after she set up the FI Group, later called Xansa, she gave birth to her only child, Giles.
就在她創立Xansa公司的前身FI集團的一年后，Stephanie誕下了她的獨子Giles。
Prisoners often are allowed to see a lawyer only after their interrogations .
犯人只有在審訊完之后才能見到他的律師。
I forgot my lie to my mum soon and went to bed at night after having a good time for the whole afternoon.
打電話的事，我很快就忘了。玩耍了一個下午，直到晚上熄燈睡覺。
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.
我們津津樂道的弗蘭納里·奧康納小說都是她被診斷出患有狼瘡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：我有時會納悶，為什么只有拿著實實在在的紙，看著被打印的稿子時我才能修改文章。
I had a great many adventures after this, but I was young in the business, and did not know how to manage.
此后我又有許多次的冒險，但是我干這事的經歷很淺，不知道怎么辦。
It was as if the wind and rain had lulled at last, after a long and fearful storm.
這時好象在長久而可怖的狂風暴雨之后終于得到了寧靜似的。
After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew.
自從尼索林打定主意要在醫院里度過戰爭的余下歲月以后，他便給所有認識的人寫信。
After forty years in politics I think it's time for me to call it a day.
從政四十年，我想現在也該退休了。
Indeed, after serious thinking of these things, I should be very melancholy, and sometimes it would last a great while.
的確，我每次把這些事情認真地想一下，就感到悶悶不樂，有時好半天都排解不開。
One day, about a month after the inquiry, Arthur suddenly decided to speak to his father on the subject.
法院審理后大約一個月，有一天，阿瑟突然決定和父親談談這個問題。
"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，“這個家伙會對付得了的；這種事情在這個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.
要是我沒有看透他的用意，而且小心提防的話，可能早就中他的計了。
After a brief, significant pause, "But he talks as good English as you or me, " said he.
他意味深長地停了一下接著說：“可是他的英語說得跟你、我一樣好。”
After a moment's hesitation, the young man stretched out his hands to meet it.
年輕人遲疑了一會兒才伸出手來迎接。
