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retrospective

/re-truh-spek-tiv/US // ˌrɛ trəˈspɛk tɪv //UK // (ˌrɛtrəʊˈspɛktɪv) //

回顾性的,回顾性,回顾,追溯

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : directed to the past; contemplative of past situations, events, etc.
    • : looking or directed backward.
    • : retroactive, as a statute.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an art exhibit showing an entire phase or representative examples of an artist's lifework.
    • : any exhibition or series of showings or performances, as of musical works or motion pictures, representing the work of an artist or performer over all or a major part of a career: a retrospective of John Ford's movies.

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Examples

  • Around the time of the event, Vogue published retrospective and historical content packages that were built out of previous galas, setting May 2020 up to be record-breaking month as well.

  • Let her do it again this week with Style Invitational Week 1415, the first of our two second-chance contests, covering the first half of the ones we did since last year’s retrospective.

  • Musa Mayer, Guston’s daughter and head of the Guston Foundation, said that the decision represents real progress and that she looks forward to celebrating the retrospective when it opens.

  • Last year, the Bauhaus’s 100th anniversary was celebrated with a host of exhibits, events and retrospectives around the world—and inspired a flurry of thoughtful writing about the movement.

  • Instead, retrospective evaluations correlated most closely to peak and end pain levels.

  • In 1980, a retrospective of the artist at the Museum of Modern Art in New York captivated Hockney.

  • To celebrate a retrospective box set, entitled Nothing Has Changed, Bowie has released a video for one of two new songs included.

  • “When Tibor died we did a retrospective of MCo., and the lamp was the last thing you saw,” she says.

  • Frank Gehry is enjoying a major moment: his retrospective is in full swing in Paris and his latest creation opens today.

  • Hopper (1882-1967), had his first major retrospective at the Whitney in 1964.

  • But statutes which merely alter the procedure, if they are in themselves good statutes, ought to be retrospective.

  • It is always to be remembered that retrospective legislation is bad in principle only when it affects the substantive law.

  • Statutes creating new crimes or increasing the punishment of old crimes ought in no case to be retrospective.

  • But the bill against Duncombe really was, what the bill against Fenwick was not, objectionable as a retrospective bill.

  • There was not a side nor retrospective glance to disturb the serenity of her large blue eyes.