aftermath「后果，创伤」
Word of the Day : May 11, 2023
aftermath
（战争、事故的）后果，创伤
noun /AF-ter-math/ [‘ɑ:ft?m?θ]
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What It Means
Aftermath refers to the period of time shortly following a destructive event, or to a negative consequence or result.
Aftermath 是指产生了不久的毁坏性事变或负面后果或后果。
AFTERMATH in Context
“The ballad, stacked with layers of harmonies, establishes her independence in the aftermath of a relationship coming to an end.” — Larisha Paul, The Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2023
“这首民谣层层叠叠的和声局部体现了她的在一段干系完毕后的独立生存。”
It was almost noon before I felt ready to clean up the mess that remained in the aftermath of the previous night’s festivities.
快到中午，我才准备好拾掇昨晚的庆祝活动留下的烂摊子。
Did You Know?
At first glance, one might calculate aftermath to be closely related to mathematics and its cropped form math. But the math of mathematics (which came to English ultimately from Greek) and the math of aftermath grew from different roots. Aftermath dates to the late 1400s and was originally an agricultural term, an offshoot of the ancient word math, meaning “a mowing.” The original aftermath came, of course, after the math: it was historically the crop cut, grazed, or plowed under after the first crop of the season from the same soil. (Math is still used in some parts of the United Kingdom to refer to a mowing of a grass or hay crop, as well as to the crop that is mowed.) It wasn’t until the mid-1600s that aftermath came to have the meanings now familiar to us, referring to the period of time following a destructive event, or to a negative consequence or result.
At first glance, one might calculate aftermath to be closely related to mathematics and its cropped form math. 但是the math of mathematics （终极从希腊语传到英语中）和 the math of aftermath 的劈头于不同的本源。 Aftermath 可以追溯到 1400 年代终期，最初是农业术语，是古语单词 math 的一个分支，意思是“a mowing「割草」”。 固然，最初的 aftermath 是在 the math 之后显现的：在汗青上的收割、放牧或劳绩了第一茬后的再次收割。 （在英国的某些地区，math 仍旧用于指割草，以及被割的作物。）直到 1600 年代中期，aftermath 才开头显现我们如今熟习的涵义，指的是毁坏性事变产生后的负面后果?或后果。
Quiz
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