| 单词 |
after-life |
| 释义 |
ˈafter-life
[after- 9.]
1. A subsequent or future life.
a1593Marlowe Hero & Leander (1598) (Ded.) sig. A2, The impression of the man, that hath been deare unto us, living an after life in our memorie, there putteth us in minde of farther obsequies. 1615Hoby Curry-combe iii. 149 Saduces..denied the Resurrection, and by consequence any after-life. 1925F. W. Norwood in J. Marchant Life after Death 70 Concerning Jesus and the After Life. 1925D. Thomas Ibid. 104 Young children whose minds were unversed in speculations about the After Life.
2. The later period of one's life.
a1678H. Scougal Life of God (1726) 204 The lessons which afflictions teach us, are then most advantageous when we learn them betimes, that we have the use of them in the conduct of our after lives. a1805Wordsworth Notebook Y in Prelude (1926) 556 Untutor'd minds stop here, and after-life Leads them no further. 1817Scott Harold vi. xix, Eivir! since thou for many a day Hast follow'd Harold's wayward way, It is but meet that in the line Of after-life I follow thine. 1833Marryat Pet. Simple (1863) 87 My history was not written in after-life. 1837Lockhart Scott I. 323 Archibald Constable, in after life one of the most eminent of British publishers. 1878W. S. Jevons Pol. Econ. Pref. 6 To instil..notions on subjects with which all must in after-life be practically conversant. 1923J. M. Murry Pencillings 77 He gives a picture of the after-life of the stockinged Fauntleroys. |
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