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afterword

/af-ter-wurd, ahf-/US // ˈæf tərˌwɜrd, ˈɑf- //UK // (ˈɑːftəˌwɜːd) //

后记,编后语,后语,序言

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a concluding section, commentary, etc., as of a book, treatise, or the like; closing statement.

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Examples

  • It transformed the culture with a “sudden flood of new ideas, combined with the relative lack of statutory oversight on a whole generation of youth,” as translator Ari Larissa Heinrich explains in the afterword.

  • Music journalist Joel Selwin annotates, with a preface by Donovan, a foreword by Jorma Kaukonen, and an afterword by John Poppy.

  • And Tom Cruise pens the afterword of your book, about your aborted project At the Mountains of Madness.

  • Afterword” from Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser.

  • This piece was adapted from a new Afterword on forgiveness, to be published in the expanded paperback edition March 3.

  • Gay Talese's brilliant history of morality in America was re-issued this year with a new afterword by the author.

  • This shall be a brief afterword, for I have little else to say.

  • I had not thought to add anything to them by way of an afterword.

  • "Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it," is the prayer's solemn afterword; but the prayer we ask is no trifle.