after

英[ˈɑːftə(r)]美[ˈæftər]

prep.在…之后，在（某人）后面，寻找，追捕，仅次于，虽然，鉴于，模仿，与…对比，接连；

conj. 在…以后；

adv.后来，以后；

adj.后来的；

英语六级真题

Well-off families are ruled by calendars, with children enrolled in ballet, soccer and after-school programs, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

The summer after 7th grade, students spend three weeks on a college campus studying advanced math for seven hours a day.

Students attend after-school clubs, summer camps, online forums and classes and university-based math circles, to prepare for the competitions.

Ms.Lareau doesn't believe participating in fewer after-class activities will negatively affect children's development.

In these groups, which came out of an Eastern European tradition of developing young talent, professors teach promising K-12 students advanced mathematics for several hours after school or on weekends.

After the high-pressure Countdown round at this year's national MathCounts competition, in which the top 12 students went head to head solving complex problems in rapid fire, the finalists for the Math Video Challenge took the stage to show their videos.

Good morning! America’s holiday shopping season starts on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving.

About 183.8 million people will shop on Cyber Monday, the first Monday after Thanksgiving.

It turns out today's teenagers aren't so scary after all.

After the failure of Lehman Brothers, many of the world’s largest banks feared the worst as the collapse of the housing bubble exposed investments in risky loans.

That seems to be what consumers are demanding, after all.

It is worthwhile after all.

In November 2013, after an unnecessary round of additional consultation, health minister Jane Ellison said the government was minded to proceed after all.

Elsewhere in Antarctica, Russian researchers boast of their recent discovery of a freshwater reserve the size of Lake Ontario after drilling through miles of solid ice.

After six months, the employees who participated in ROWE reported reduced work-family conflict and a better sense of control of their time, and they were getting a full hour of extra sleep each night.

One reason for the rise in deaths from Alzheimer’s disease in this group may be that developing this condition remains possible even after people beat the odds of dying from other diseases such as cancer.

After sorting the deals by category, they determined that among the 512 brands associated with the athletes, most involve sporting goods, followed closely by food and beverage brands.

With the help of psychologists, there is fresh hope that we might go green after all.

We break our promise not to fly after hearing about a neighbour's trip to India.

There is a lot of support at Yale, to an extent, after a while, there is too much support, he said, half-joking about the countless resources available at the school.

But more recently, companies have begun to plan more affordable After being dogged by technical delays for years, Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic's founder, had recently suggested that a SpaceShipTwo craft would carry its first paying customers as soon as February 2015.

At the end of his first year, Nijay lost his Pell Grant of over $5,000 after narrowly missing the 2.

As a former high school teacher, I saw students choose familiar, cheaper options year after year.

After all, we don't speak only of objects or people as having momentum; we speak of entire systems having momentum.

"There is a lot of support at Yale, to an extent, after a while, there is too much support," he said, half-joking about the countless resources available at the school.

"We're obligated to keep a pulse on the population for at least five years after the foxes are delisted," says Boser.

A few weeks after this positive dress rehearsal, the young lawyer did win.

After all worlds, workers have already suffered the worst deduction in wages since the early 18 hundreds.

After all, existing jobs open up every day due to promotions, resignations, terminations, and retirements.

After all, students making their own choices in this respect is what caused the problem in the first place.

After all, the percentage of Americans who say a college degree is "very important" has fallen drastically in the last 5-6 years.

After becoming president of Purdue University in 2013, mitch Daniels asked the faculty to prove that their students have actually achieved one of higher education's most important goals: critical thinking skills.

After being dogged by technical delays for years, sir Richard Branson, virgin Galactic's founder, had recently suggested that a Spaceship Two craft would carry its first paying customers as soon as February 2015.

After conducting extensive research in which he studied the festivals of many African groups of people, he decided that the new holiday should be a harvest or "first fruits" celebration, incorporating ideas from many different harvest traditions.

After six months, researchers found the high protein group had significantly improved their muscle function一almost twice as much as the control group.

After six months, the employees who participated in ROWE reported reduced work-family conflict and a better sense of control of their time, and they were getting a full hour of extra sleep each night.

After studying these products for several years, I wrote a book about how they do it.

After that I'll outline the new company's structures and who's going where.

After that, a few small populations left Africa to populate the rest of the world.

After that, candles are lit alternately from left to right.

After that, the damage is done and is highly irreversible.

After the first pair of tasks was completed, one group of participants was assigned an undemanding activity intended to cause their minds to wander.

After the high-pressure Countdown round at this year's national Math Counts competition, in which the top 12 students went head to head solving complex problems in rapid fire, the finalists for the Math video Challenge took the stage to show their videos.

After three years of working in a petrol station and doing unpaid work I still hadn't managed to get an entry level job.

After years of pleasing a fascinated audience across Europe with books of detailed descriptions and life-size paintings of familiar insects.

As a former high school teacher, I saw students choose familiar,cheaper options year after year.

At the end of his first year, Nijay lost his Pell Grant of over $5,000 after narrowly missing the 2.0 GPA cut-off, making it impossible for him to continue paying for school.

Because of their smaller size, most keep hours that allow people to enjoy themselves, then have some quiet after midnight, as opposed to large major cities like New York, where the buzz of activity is ongoing.

But after General mills bought Epic in 2016, Collins and Forrest suddenly had the resources they needed to expand their supply chain.

But after I moved to Tokyo and lived there for a number of years, I got used to having a pile of to-do lists.

But after she snapped a photo and started using her phone, he asked her a serious question: "Are you going to post that online?"

But I stopped after I showed my wife a little section.

Effectively, the ban will include the registration of new cars in the country as they will not allow any gasoline powered vehicle to be registered after 2030.

Even worse, after refreshing our email or reading the same studies over and over, we are too exhausted when we land to soldier on with (继续处理) the emails that have inevitably still piled up.

For decades, many downtown cores in small to mid-sized cities were abandoned after work hours by workers who lived in the suburbs.

I just got the idea a few months ago after posting some holiday photos on my social media accounts.

If after work you lie around on your bed and get irritated by political commentary on your phone or get stressed thinking about decisions about how to renovate your home, your brain has not received a break from high mental arousal states.

In 1863, after 17 years of advocacy including letters to five presidents, Hale got it.

In 2001, for example, the Environmental Protection Agenc restricted the type and amount of lead that could be present in paint and soil to homes and child-care facilities after concerns were raised about lead poisoning.

In an 1801 drawing from his book, General Zoology Amphibia, George Shaw, an English botanist and zoologist, credited Merian for describing a frog in the account of her South American expedition, and named the young tree frog after her in his portrayal of

In recent years, many mid-sized cities have begun to adopt a middle-of-the-road approach incorporating the excitement and opportunity of large cities with small cities' quiet after midnight.

In the beginning of the movie I, Robot, a robot has to decide whom to save after two cars plunge into the water— Del Spooner or a child.

It continued the efforts, begun in 1961, by Project OSCAR—a US-based group that built and launched the very first nongovernmental satellite just four years after Sputnik.

Longevity statistics reveal that the average person doesn't last very long after retirement.

More than 20 years after the internet was opened to commerce, the Census Bureau tells us that brick and mortar sales accounted for 92.3 percent of retail sales in the first quarter of 2016.

More than seven years after it was originally supposed to open, it still stands empty.

Part of the problem is that almost two decades after Amazon filed the one-click patent, the online retail shopping and buying experience is filled with frictions.

Pasta is no longer off the menu, after a new review of studies suggested that the carbohydrate can form part of a healthy diet, and even help people lose weight.

Perhaps one explanation for her mistakes is that she cut short her Suriname trip after getting bick, and completed the book at home in Amsterdam.

San Jose, California, began a dog program after the terrorist attacks of September 11th.

Shortly after he took over the Reader's Digest Association in 1984, George Grune unlocked the company's boardroom and announced that the room was now open to the employees.

So, what did she do after her acting career?

Soon after launching EPIC'S most successful product - the Bison Bacon Cranberry Bar - Collins and Forrest found they'd exhausted their sources for Bison raised exclusively on pasture.

Still, the track coach had offered me a walk-on spot, and I actually found the urban Atlanta campus a decent consolation prize after New York city.

The problem is "decision fatigue, '' a psychological phenomenon that takes a toll on the quality of your choices after a long day of decision making, says Evan Polman, a leading psychologist.

The roasted seasoning largely overpowered any other flavour, although there was slightly bitter after taste.

The strike comes in light of an unsuccessful 19 months of negotiations after the existing labor contract known as the Interactive Media Agreement expired in late 2014.

This was after controlling for IQ, socio-economic status and academic skills at school entry.

Three hundred years after her death, Merian will be celebrated at an international symposium in Amsterdam this June.

Thus, by telling others that we are busy and working all the time, we are implicitly suggesting that we are sought after, which enhances our perceived status.

We break our promise not to fly after hearing about a neighbor's trip to India.

When her mother was interviewed, three weeks after her daughter's birth, she was asked if she was prepared for what might be a daunting task caring for her.

When I re-entered the full-time workforce a few years ago after a decade of solitary self-employment, there was one thing I was looking forward to the most: the opportunity to have work friends once again.

with the help of psychologists, there is fresh hope that we might go green after all.

You only really get proficient after many years in the job.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

PREP

在（时间、事件）以后

If something happens after a particular date or event, it happens during the period of time that follows that date or event.

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PREP

…之后（指做事的先后顺序）

If you do one thing after doing another, you do it during the period of time that follows the other thing.

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PREP

（时间）在…后

You use after when you are talking about time. For example, if something is going to happen during the day after or the weekend after a particular time, it is going to happen during the following day or during the following weekend.

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PREP

随…之后；跟在…之后

If you go after someone, you follow or chase them.

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PREP

追求；搜寻

If you are after something, you are trying to get it.

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PREP

朝着（正离去之人喊叫或注视）

If you call, shout, or stare after someone, you call, shout, or stare at them as they move away from you.

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PREP

为，替（某人做某事）

If you do something after someone, you do it for them, because they cannot or will not do it for themselves.

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PREP

过了（某地）以后

If you tell someone that one place is a particular distance after another, you mean that it is situated beyond the other place and further away from you.

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PREP

（写）在…后面（或下面）

If one thing is written after another thing on a page, it is written following it or underneath it.

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PREP

（重要性）仅次于，低于

You use after in order to give the most important aspect of something when comparing it with another aspect.

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PREP

依照，按照（某人的名字命名）

To be named after someone means to be given the same name as them.

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CONVENTION

（走路或出入门口时的礼貌用语）您先请

If you say 'after you' to someone, you are being polite and allowing them to go in front of you or through a doorway before you do.

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PREP

（…点）过（…分）

After is used when telling the time. If it is, for example, ten after six, the time is ten minutes past six.

PHRASE

一个接一个地；接连地

If you do something to several things one after the other or one after another, you do it to one, then the next, and so on, with no break between your actions.

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PHRASE

日复一日/年复一年

If something happens day after day or year after year, it happens every day or every year, for a long time.

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英汉词典释义

prep.

(表示时间)在…以后

(表示位置、顺序)在…后面

(表示原因)由于, 鉴于

(表示条件)与…一致; 符合

(表示方式)像, 仿照, 模仿, 依照

(表示依据)以…之名命名

(表示论及)关于; 涉及

(表示目标)追求, 追寻

(表示让步)尽管, 仍然

（表示反复不断或一个接着一个）

跟随；追赶；在…后面

与…对照；与…对比

…后的

conj.

在…以后

adv.

以后, 继后

adj.

后来的；以后的

英英词典释义

Adjective

1. located farther aft

Adverb

1. happening at a time subsequent to a reference time;

2. behind or in the rear;

行业词典

土木工程： 后滤池；after-filter；

物理学： 后效函数；after-effect function；