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Definition
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back
他在屋后。He's at the back of the house
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behind
它在电视后吗？Is it behind the television?
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- afterwards
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after
休手术后又恢复健康了。After the surgery, she was back on her feet.课后，你要跟我去看电影吗？After class, do you want to go watch a movie with me?
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later
他吃了午饭，两小时后又饿了He ate lunch and was hungry again two hours later.
Compounds (7)
Related words (249)
offspring; future generations; descendant; progeny; later periods; later ages; later generations; posterity
escape route; retreat route; communication lines to the rear; alternative course of action; room for maneuver
less advanced; underdeveloped; lagging behind; the younger generation; the less experienced ones
velar nasal; consonant ng or ŋ produced in the nose with the back of the tongue against the soft palate
to deal with the aftermath (arising from an accident); funeral arrangements; reparations
soon after; soon afterward; immediately afterwards; hereafter; followed by; to follow; subsequently
to open the back door; (fig.) under the counter; to do a secret or dishonest deal; to let sth in by the back door
saying in which the second part, uttered after a pause or totally left out, is the intended meaning of the allegory presented in the first part
after liberation (i.e. after the Communist's victory); after the establishment of PRC in 1949
(lit.) to enter by the back door; (fig.) to gain influence by pull or unofficial channels; back door or under the counter connections
marriage arranged following a pregnancy; marriage necessitated by an unplanned pregnancy
unprecedented and never to be duplicated; the first and the last; unmatched; unique
to trip forwards or stumble back (idiom, from Book of Songs); can't get anything right
(lit.) chest sticking to back; (fig.) famished; (of several persons) packed chest to back
the best part of the show is yet to come; (with ironic tone) the worst is yet to come; you ain't seen nothin' yet
place sb on a field of death and he will fight to live (idiom based on Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孙子兵法); to fight desperately when confronting mortal danger; (fig.) to find a way out of an impasse
to surpass all others of its kind before and since; to have neither predecessors nor successors
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Idioms (31)
(lit.) late-comer lives above (idiom); the up-and-coming youngster outstrips the older generation; the pupil surpasses the master
the young will be redoubtable in the years to come (idiom); the younger generations will surpass us in time
(lit.) warning to the following cart (idiom); don't follow the track of an overturned cart; (fig.) draw lesson from the failure of one's predecessor; learn from past mistake; once bitten twice shy
fears of trouble in the rear (idiom); family worries (obstructing freedom of action); worries about the future consequences; often in negative expressions, meaning "no worries about anything"
peaceful measures before using force (idiom); diplomacy before violence; jaw-jaw is better than war-war
one falls, the next follows (idiom); stepping into the breach to replace fallen comrades; advancing wave upon wave
thinking and pondering (idiom); to turn sth over in one's mind; to consider repeatedly
to consider past cause and future effect (idiom); to think over the past and future; to ponder over reasons and connection
(lit.) to punish those before to prevent those after (idiom); to criticize former mistakes firmly to prevent them happening again
to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition; forming a bridge between earlier and later stages
(lit.) settling accounts after the autumn harvest (idiom); to wait until the time is ripe to settle accounts; to bide time for revenge
(lit.) to settle accounts after autumn; settle scores at an opportune moment (idiom)
(lit.) after rain, the spring bamboo (idiom); fig. rapid new growth; many new things emerge in rapid succession
(lit.) to fear the wolf in front and the tiger behind (idiom); fig. needless fears; scare mongering; reds under the beds
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