aftermath

英 ['ɑ?ft?m?θ] 美['?ft?m?θ]

CET6+TEM4GRE中低頻詞擴展詞匯

復數:?aftermaths;

aftermath 后果，余波

after,在后。-math,割草，擬聲詞，同mow。原指割的第二遍草，即質量比較差的草，引申比喻義后果，余波。

aftermath: aftermath: [16] Originally, and literally, an aftermath was a second crop of grass or similar grazing vegetation, grown after an earlier crop in the same season had been harvested. Already by the mid 17th century it had taken on the figurative connotations of ‘resulting condition’ which are today its only living sense. The -math element comes from Old English m?th ‘mowing’, a noun descended from the Germanic base *m?, source of English mow.
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aftermath (n.): 1520s, originally a second crop of grass grown after the first had been harvested, from after + -math, a dialectal word, from Old English m?e "a mowing, cutting of grass" (see math (n.2)). Figurative sense by 1650s. Compare French regain "aftermath," from re- + Old French gain, gaain "grass which grows in meadows that have been mown," from Frankish or some other Germanic source similar to Old High German weida "grass, pasture"

1. A lot of rebuilding took place in the aftermath of the war.: 戰后進行了大量的重建工作。

2. In the aftermath of the hurricane, many people's homes were destroyed.: 颶風的后果是許多人的房屋被毀.

3. In the immediate aftermath of the riots, a mood of hope and reconciliation sprang up.: 暴亂過后緊接著出現了期待未來與盼望和解的氣氛。

4. This old gentleman is to deal with the aftermath of the traffic accident.: 這位老先生負責處理這次車禍的善后工作.

5. During the Soviet era and its immediate aftermath, the region was officially known as "Middle Asia and Kazakhstan".: 在蘇聯時代和緊隨其后的一段時期，該地區的官方名稱為“中亞和哈薩克斯坦”。