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单词 posthumously
释义
posthumously
adverb
uk
/ˈpɒs.tʃə.məs.li/us
/ˈpɑːs.tʃə.məs.li/
after a person'sdeath:
死后发生地
His lastnovelwaspublishedposthumously.他的最后一部小说是在死后出版的。
Hediedon Iwo Jima and was posthumouslyawardedtheMedalofHonor.他死在硫磺岛，被追授荣誉勋章。
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  • InSeptemberhe was posthumouslyawardedthe VictoriaCross.
  • "Islands in the Stream" was thetitleof a posthumouslypublishedErnest Hemingwaybook.
  • As is thecasefor manygreatauthors, Thoreauenjoyedhisgreatestsuccessposthumously.
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(Definition ofposthumouslyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofposthumously

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Hisposthumouslypublished study of names is also meant to underpin an early date.
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In addition,posthumouslyappointed male heirs were allowed only partial inheritance rights, even when the deceased couple had no surviving daughters.
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Posthumously, he was found to be a compound heterozygote for hereditary haemochromatosis.
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It became historicalposthumously, as it were, through events that may be separated from it by thousands of years.
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The book was written in 1941 and publishedposthumously.
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The presumption is that these would have included kinds whose life style wouldposthumouslyproduce substantial carbon inhumation and ensuing oil production.
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Indeed, these beliefs were recorded in his final academic contribution publishedposthumouslyone year after his death.
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This revenge was to comeposthumously.
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This too was publishedposthumouslyin 1714.
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His seat was awardedposthumously.
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To put it differently, the living cannot, and do not, have a right to dispose of their body as they wishposthumously; nor do their relatives have that right.
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But this objection does not apply to exemptions from the duty to make one's organs availableposthumously, since securing organs to those who need it is not a public good.
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There is no revoking that sentence once it is carried out—no recall, no commutation and no pardon, exceptposthumously.
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Hansard archive
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I should like to express my warm thanks to himposthumously.
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I am here dealing with the only honour which it is possible to awardposthumously.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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