Old English heræfter (adv.) "in the future; later on;" see here + after. Meaning "after death" is mid-14c. As a noun, "time in the future," from 1540s. Meaning "a future world, the world to come" is from 1702.
双语例句
1. I realised how hard life was going to be for me hereafter.
我意识到从今以后我的生活将会多么艰难。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Do you believe in a life hereafter?
你相信有来世吗？
来自《权威词典》
3. Michel Foucault (1972), The Archaeology of Knowledge; hereafter this text will be abbreviated as AK.
米歇尔·福柯（1972），《知识考古学》，下文简称AK。
来自柯林斯例句
4. Its message is that what a man does in this life has a bearing on what happens to him hereafter.
