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thereafter

/thair-af-ter, -ahf-/US // ˌðɛərˈæf tər, -ˈɑf- //UK // (ˌðɛərˈɑːftə) //

此后,其后,之后,随后

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : after that in time or sequence; afterward: Thereafter they did not speak.
    • : Obsolete. accordingly.

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Examples

  • President Rhee resigned soon thereafter and was secreted out of the country to Hawaii by the American CIA.

  • Soon thereafter, Bentivolio was asked to play Santa in downtown Milford and became a professional.

  • Shortly thereafter, Facebook announced a similar initiative, although their plan calls for the use of drones instead of balloons.

  • Shortly thereafter, T.I. lent his first post-incarceration verse to a remix of “Magic.”

  • Thereafter, the 1960s swelled with political zeal and social unrest.

  • Now, the whole Northwest groaned beneath a cast-iron prohibition law at that time, and for some years thereafter.

  • In contrast to the Widal, it begins to fade about the end of the second week, and soon thereafter entirely disappears.

  • Cotton exchanges reopened on November 16, and stock exchanges opened for restricted trading shortly thereafter.

  • Thereafter he ran away from school twice, having been seized with a romantic and irresistible desire to see and shoot a lion!

  • It is to be presumed that thereafter Jacob's first inquiry must have been, "Oh now, where did you get such and such goods?"