单词	afterthought
释义	afterthoughtaf‧ter‧thought /ˈɑːftəθɔːt $ ˈæftərθɒːt/ noun [countable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES The tiles looked out of place, as if they had been an afterthought. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS All too often, lighting is an afterthought superimposed on the final decoration instead of being planned from the start. Having said good-bye, he had paused as if in an afterthought. He offered it to Coffin, not as a prize, but more as an afterthought. I was frisked, my belt and Seiko taken from me, and, as an afterthought, kicked in the ribs. In her editorial Vivienne Van Someren suggests that arrangements for job sharers are often an afterthought. In Mission Valley, housing was an afterthought. Too late and the greeting is grunted as an afterthought as you both pass only feet away from each other. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► add · Or maybe, she added as an afterthought, it was a boy. something that you mention or add later because you did not think of it or plan it before:  He added as an afterthought, ‘Bring Melanie too.'
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