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afterlife

/af-ter-lahyf, ahf-/US // ˈæf tərˌlaɪf, ˈɑf- //UK // (ˈɑːftəˌlaɪf) //

来世,来生,往生,死后

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Also called future life. life after death.
    • : the later part of a person's life: the remarkably productive afterlife of Thomas Jefferson.

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  • Repairing the body would have ensured that the deceased could continue existing in the afterlife.

  • If you sit around considering your own mortality, you’ll be driven to invent stories about an afterlife so that the stories you fashion for yourself can carry on after death.

  • He wakes up on a stairway to the afterlife and runs in the opposite direction, hoping to get back to earth, but instead he finds himself in a place called the Great Before, where he sees how souls are made.

  • It has a surprising number of applications beyond concerns for a comfortable afterlife.

  • This was so that in the afterlife, the dead could see and communicate with the living.

  • The religious narrative resolved our death anxiety through faith in an afterlife.

  • Somewhere in the Afterlife, Laurence Sterne must have been tickled to see his fiendish book infused with new life.

  • Last year, he created the critically acclaimed zombie-apocalypse-in-Riverdale themed title Afterlife With Archie.

  • In 2011 and 2012, about 40 percent of each published Archie comic went unsold; to date, every issue of Afterlife has sold out.

  • Families can visit entire sculpture gardens featuring vivid depictions of what sinners face in the afterlife.

  • And perhaps it was to a certain remorse in the tutor's mind that Elsmere owed an experience of great importance to his afterlife.

  • Why refuse a bit of sweetness to a tiny infant, perhaps destined to taste little of it in afterlife?

  • The tone that colours our afterlife is often caught in these chance colloquies, and the bent given that shapes a career.

  • He was placed there when about fourteen years old, and appears to have been educated to his own satisfaction in afterlife.

  • Before that 'gold net thrown over all,' all the mistakes of his afterlife seem to me to grow almost insignificant.