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单词 afterthought
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afterthought
noun[Cusually singular]
uk
/ˈɑːf.tə.θɔːt/us
/ˈæf.tɚ.θɑːt/
anidea,thought, orplanthat was notoriginallyintendedbut isthoughtof at alatertime:
事后想法；事后添加的事物
She onlyaskedme to herpartyas anafterthought.她原本没有请我去参加她的聚会，只是后来才想起来的。
Thepillarsseemto have beenaddedto theentranceas anafterthought.这些柱子好像是完工后在入口处添加上去的。
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(Definition ofafterthoughtfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

afterthought| American Dictionary

afterthought
noun[Cusually sing]
us
/ˈæf·tərˌθɔt/
anideaorplanthat was notoriginallyintended:
Pineincludedthesongalmostas an afterthought on his lastalbum.
(Definition ofafterthoughtfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofafterthought

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In a collection of essays that is otherwise excellent in making links between theoretical and practical observations, thisafterthoughtis a constant haunting presence.
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The policy is neither anafterthoughtnor an expensive irrelevance, but the manifestation of the unique place of agriculture in the psyche of industrial societies.
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Finally, one amino acid looks like anafterthought: the pathway to histidine is an extension of nucleotide synthesis and takes 26 steps in all.
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The weakest section of the book is that addressing educational issues, which seems to have been included as anafterthought.
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Often the appeal to national pride was too successful, with scientific objects obscured or reduced to anafterthought.
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Now the pretentious sentences and the qualifying afterthoughts, all that hedging with provisos so typical of science talk - all that was now superfluous.
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Materialisation is not anafterthoughtbut part of the concept.
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Political considerations and the availability of funds drive many newly commissioned services, and their evaluation is frequently anafterthought.
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Unfortunately, the concluding chapter on the role of advertising suffers by comparison and has the feeling of being anafterthought.
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A since-clause might be postposed, almost as anafterthought, in case the speaker seeks to justify, post hoc, the content of the main clause.
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Almost as anafterthoughthe notes that the pronoun what does it too.
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These treatments appear to be afterthoughts with no real bearing on the issue.
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It introduced economic motives only as anafterthought.
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The instrument is deliberately out of place amongst the predominant wind, and its series of musical afterthoughts only heightens this feeling.
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As anafterthought, they may also enhance normal abilities.
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