| 单词 | in retrospect |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin retrospect c. in retrospect: when looking back; with hindsight. ΚΠ 1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 232 Short as in retrospect the journey seems, It seem'd not always short. 1818 G. Canning in Late Elections 186 Prediction which, in prospect, it would have been presumptuous to dispute, but which, in retrospect, it is now pleasant to contemplate. 1867 A. H. Hoge Boys in Blue vii. 121 The men, strange to say, were made comfortable. In retrospect this is difficult to comprehend. 1933 S. Walker Night Club Era 117 In retrospect these lads would appear not as bruisers, loft-thieves, pickpockets and what not, but as good-hearted lads full of the spirit of fun and horseplay. 1960 J. F. Lehman I am my Brother I. 17 The decade we had been through seemed to me in retrospect a period where promising beginnings had failed again and again. 1993 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 198/1 In retrospect, I quite understand why the girls fell for him. < as lemmas |
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