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出处：按学科分类—语言、文字 辽宁人民出版社《英汉辞典》第27页（1151字）

【释义】：

prep．①在…后：after lunch午饭后．after school放学后．after four o’clock四点钟以后．the day after tomorrow后天．the week after next下下星期．put the object after the verb把宾语放在动词后面．Day after day passed by．一天一天过去了．After you．您请先(走)．After you with the paper，please．看完报纸请给我看．②亚于，次于：She after Comrade Li sings the best among them．在他们中间她唱歌仅次于李同志．③追踪，追求，寻找：seek after truth追求真理．The militiamen ran after the enemy agent．民兵追那特务．We are after ores．我们在找矿．④关于，涉及：They asked after your health．他们探问你的健康情况．⑤摹仿，按照，符合：after the model of Comrade Chang Szu-teh以张思德同志为榜样．a story rewritten after Lu Hsun根据鲁迅原着改写的故事．after one’s own heart符合自己的心意．⑥经过：After all hardships and dangers the Red Army men finally reached Northern Shensi．经过了无数艰险，红军战士最后到达了陕北．⑦尽管…还是…：After all her care her baby got ill．尽管精心照顾，她的小孩还是病了．

△after all毕竟，终于，到底：We succeeded after all．我们终于成功了．

－ad．以后，后来：soon(long，a few days) after 不久(很久、几天)以后：He came on Sunday and left two days after．他星期日来的，两天以后走了．

－conj．在…以后：He began to work immediately after he(had)arrived．他到达后立即开始工作．

－a．以后的，后面的：in after years在以后的年代里．