afterthought

英 [ˈɑːftəθɔːt]

美 [ˈæftərθɔːt]

n.  事后想法，事后添加的事物(常指未经周密考虑)

复数：afterthoughts　

BNC.15036 / COCA.14016

牛津词典

noun

• 事后想法，事后添加的事物（常指未经周密考虑）
  a thing that is thought of, said or added later, and is often not carefully planned
  1. They only invited Jack and Sarah as an afterthought .
     他们邀请杰克和萨拉不过是事后想起的补救办法。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 事后的想法;追加的事物
  If you do or say something as anafterthought, you do or say it after something else as an addition, perhaps without careful thought.
  1. Almost as an afterthought he added that he missed her.
     他又几乎不假思索地补充说他想念她。

英英释义

noun

• an addition that was not included in the original plan
  1. the garage was an afterthought
• thinking again about a choice previously made
  1. he had second thoughts about his purchase
  Synonym:reconsiderationsecond thoughtrethink

双语例句

• Almost as an afterthought he added that he missed her.
  他又几乎不假思索地补充说他想念她。
• He knew she had accepted without afterthought.
  他知道她未经思考就欣然接受邀请。
• For most software projects, quality is an afterthought.
  对大多数软件项目而言，质量是马后炮。
• Several patterns were applied to achieve this, although they were not applied as an afterthought.
  为了实现这一目标，有几种模式得到了应用，不过它们不是作为补救措施而应用的。
• Is performance an afterthought until someone at the right management level starts complaining?
  是不是实施只是马后炮，直到某个具有管理水平的人开始抱怨？
• At Activiti, dealing with business processes in the context of software development is not an afterthought.
  在Activiti，在软件开发环境下处理业务流程不是可有可无的事情。
• I met his wife, too. ( An afterthought.) I didn't much like her.
  我还见过他的夫人。（然后补充说）我不太喜欢她。
• Second, privacy is no longer an afterthought.
  第二，隐私已经不再是事后才想到的问题。
• Service management and monitoring should be considered at Design-Time, not as an afterthought associated solely with IT operations.
  服务管理和监视应该是在设计时考虑的问题，不应该是只与IT操作相关联的后期问题。
• Unfortunately, security is one topic that is often dismissed or dealt with as an afterthought.
  不幸的是，安全性是一个常被忽略的主题，或者是在发生安全事故之后才想到的事情。