【after音标】 英[ˈɑ:ftə(r)] 美[ˈæftə(r)]
【单词释义】 after是什么意思：
prep.…后的；（表示时间）在…以后；（表示位置、顺序）在…后面
conj.在…以后
adv.以后，后来
adj.后来的，以后的
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
【after形近词/近似词】
meter n.(Am.)米，公尺 v.用仪表测量
deter v.阻止，制止；威慑；使不敢
outer adj.外面的，外部的
【常用短语】
after all 毕竟；终究
day after day 日复一日，一天又一天
go after 追逐；追求；追击
look after 照顾；关心；目送
one after another 接连地；一个接一个地
run after 追求；追赶；追逐
soon after 稍后，不久以后
take after （在外表、举止、性格方面）像
【单词例句】
◇ And she ran off the path into the woods looking for flowers. Each time she picked one she thought that she could see an even more beautiful one a little way off, and she ran after it, going further and further into the woods.
她於是离开大路，走进林子去採花。她每採下一朵花，总觉得前面还有更美丽的花朵，便又向前走去，结果一直走到了林子深处。
---- Little Red Cap
◇ "I will try on the glass slipper." Cinderella tried on the glass slipper. The shoe fit her perfectly. Cinderella took out the other glass slipper to put it on, "Ah! It was you." The prince and Cinderella went back to the palace and lived happily ever after.
“我来试试吧，”灰姑娘试穿了下玻璃鞋。鞋的尺寸刚刚好。灰姑娘拿出另一只玻璃鞋穿上，“啊!原来是你。”王子带着灰姑娘回到了宫殿，从此过着幸福的生活。”
---- Cinderella
◇ He circled around and around in the water like a wheel, craning his neck out into the air after them. Then he uttered the shriek so piercing and so strange that he was quite frightened by himself.
他在水上像一个车轮似地不停地旋转着，同时，把自己的颈项高高地向他们伸着，发出一种响亮的怪叫声，连他自己也吓着了。
---- The Ugly Duckling
◇ 'I've never before seen a rabbit with either a pocket,or a watch to take out of it,'she thought.And she ran quickly across the field after the Rabbit.She did not stop to think, and when the Rabbit ran down a large rabbit-hole,Alice followed it immediately.
“我从未见过有口袋的兔子，或者兔子掏出一块手表来。”她想。她跟在兔子后面很快跑过田野。她也没停下来想一想，当兔子跑进一个大的兔子洞时，爱丽丝立即跟了进去。
---- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1)
◇ Some days after that the Queen had a child. The child was white as snow. The Queen called her Snow-white.
几天之后，王后生了个小孩，这个孩子白得像雪一样，王后给她取名为“白雪公主”。
---- Snow White
◇ These bacteria and other microorganisms grow inside everyone's mouth, and form a claggy biofilm commonly known as dental plaque. It is made up of around 700 different species of bacteria, the second-greatest diversity in the human body after the gut, as well as a host of fungi and viruses.
这些细菌和其他微生物在每个人的口腔内生长，并形成称为牙菌斑的粘稠生物膜。它由大约700种不同的细菌组成，细菌多样性在人类体内仅次于肠道，还有大量的真菌和病毒。
---- How to properly brush your teeth
◇ The mother sat and mourned the entire day, until the youngest son —— who was always with her, and who was named Benjamin after the Bible —— said to her, "Dear mother, why are you so sad?"
做母亲的现在整天坐在那里伤心，终於有一天，一直和她呆在一起的最小的儿子——她给他起了个《圣经》上的名字便雅明——问她：“亲爱的妈妈，你为甚么这样忧伤？”
---- The Twelve Brothers
◇ The frog believed the king's daughter. He dipped his head under the water and dived to the bottom. After a while he carried the ball to the surface, and threw it onto the grass.
青蛙相信国王女儿的话。它把头浸入水里，潜至水底。过了一会儿，它把球带出水面，并把它抛在草地上。
---- The Frog Prince
◇ I set about working in the current Patent Office after resigning from the court personnel.
从法院人事部辞职后，我开始在现在的专利局工作。
---- Strange Patent Applications
◇ After a series of initial experiments and corrections, the scientist’s hard work paid off when the twin clone turkeys were hatched with normal feather and claws.
在最初一系列的实验和修正之后，科学家的辛苦工作终于取得了成功，一对双生的克隆火鸡孵化出来，羽毛和爪子都很正常。