afterward

B1 CET-4 高中 FREQ #14367

adv. 然后, 后来

发音

UK /ˈɑːftə.wəd/
US /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚd/

教材释义与例句

副词

以后，后来

If you do something or if something happens afterward, you do it or it happens after a particular event or time that has already been mentioned

Shortly afterward, police arrested four suspects.

之后不久，警方逮捕了４名嫌疑犯。

释义与例句

adv. B1
  1. 1.

    Alternative form of afterwards.

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词汇关系

副词

同义词 5

after later afterwards subsequently later on

词源

Inherited from Middle English afterward, from Old English æfterweard; equivalent to after + -ward.

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