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retrospectively

/re-truh-spek-tiv-lee/US // ˌrɛ trəˈspɛk tɪv li //

回顾性地,追溯,追溯性地,追溯性

Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : with contemplation of past situations, events, etc.: You should examine your relationship retrospectively.
    • : with retrospective effect; retroactively: The law operates retrospectively.

Examples

  • In addition, we’ve retrospectively identified some cases that occurred prior to the first two cases.

  • Implemented on a global level, this could allow supply chains to be retrospectively reconstructed by economists from public records.

  • The constitution was rewritten retrospectively in an attempt to put the concession beyond legal challenge.

  • But what happens once this retrospectively meager foreign aid money dries up?

  • And if it's not the winning message now, how will it have retrospectively become the winning message on Wednesday morning?

  • Some may say that a former president of course will do well retrospectively.

  • This week has the feel of one that might become retrospectively pivotal.

  • That period viewed retrospectively seems to me like one of a kind of madness.

  • Mr. Jaggers nodded his head retrospectively two or three times, and actually drew a sigh.

  • Purposes somehow work retrospectively so as to determine the course of events towards a good end.

  • Why then should not the satisfactory plum shed its halo retrospectively upon what precedes and be taken as a sign of virtue?

  • In fact, all that has become may be explained retrospectively, but the beginning of anything whatever did not become.