retrospect
英 ['retrəspekt]
美 ['rɛtrəspɛkt]
- n. 回顾,追溯
- vi. 回顾,追溯;回想
- vt. 回顾;追忆
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1. 向回看。
retrospect 回顾,回溯retro-,向后,往回,-spect,看,词源同 respect,spectator.
- retrospect (n.)
- c. 1600, "a regard or reference" (to something), from Latin retrospectum, past participle of retrospicere "look back," from retro- "back" (see retro-) + specere "look at" (see scope (n.1)). Meaning "survey of past events" is from 1660s.
- 1. The debate seems, in retrospect, to have been fixed from the beginning.
- 回想起来,这场辩论好像从一开始就被人操纵了。
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- 2. It was , in retrospect, the happiest day of her life.
- 回想起来, 那是她一生最幸福的日子.
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- 3. In retrospect it's obvious how we went wrong.
- 回想起来,我们是如何出的错就很明显了.
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- 4. The retrospect was depressing.
- 回想起来令人沮丧.
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- 5. It was a very strange feeling in retrospect — I was frightened, but excited at the same time.
- 回想起来那是一种非常奇怪的感觉——我当时既害怕又兴奋。
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