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单词 retrospection
释义
retrospection
noun[U]
uk
/ˌret.rəˈspek.ʃən/us
/ˌret.rəˈspek.ʃən/
theactofthinkingnow about something in the past:
回忆
atime/moodof retrospection用于回忆的时候/心情
Retrospection just isn't in hisnature.他的天性就是一往直前，绝不留恋过去。
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  • He is a man ofaction, not retrospection.
  • Inraremomentsof retrospection , mymotherwouldtellus about herchildhood.
  • Hermessagewasfilledwith retrospection butlargelydevoidofemotion.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Remembering, reminding and reminders
  • aide-mémoire
  • annal
  • awakensomeonetosomething
  • be engraved onsomeone'smemory/mindidiom
  • be etched on/insomeone'smemoryidiom
  • commit
  • echo
  • hold that thoughtidiom
  • hooky
  • if my memory serves me rightidiom
  • imprint
  • indelible
  • recall
  • remindsomeoneofsomething/someone
  • reminder
  • reminisce
  • reminiscence
  • reminiscent
  • shade
  • stamp
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(Definition ofretrospectionfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofretrospection

retrospection
Retrospectiontechniques such as questionnaires, stimulated recall and interviews provide opportunities for listeners to recall the listening experience at a later moment in time.
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The anthropological perspective does not refamiliarize the strange but rather increases it, substituting synchronic re-creation for diachronicretrospection.
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In setting up this exercise in disciplinaryretrospectionwe were aware that another key voice, this time from the anglophone tradition, was missing.
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They are a reflection of the perpetrators' self-image based on the desire for exculpation and tainted byretrospection.
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The documentation of planning and other metacognitive strategies in this line of work has been possible through the use ofretrospection.
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The later development of social science stems in part from the steady impulse to separate the analytic mode of considering the past fromretrospection.
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Visions of the future are tempered by rhetoricalretrospection.
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However, the short-run impact of the fourth type (national retrospections) is not significant.
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They retain the quality of eyewitness accounts, but they assume a distance between event and text that can be bridged only byretrospection.
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Encompassing tests pitting personal expectations against personal retrospections are inconclusive, so therefore we caution that additional inquiry is in order.
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Fictionalretrospectionand memorialretrospectionwere not the same.
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There was noretrospection, and payments for children were deducted only from state benefits for children.
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Such passages of criticalretrospectionare often missing in similar memoirs.
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Theretrospectionof old age toward the past always assumes a certain discontinuity between old age and youth.
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I find in their rhetoric an alternate tradition with a pedigree reaching far back into the more distant past, one emphasizing staticretrospectionand categorical morality.
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