0 an idea, thought, or plan that was not originally intended but is thought of at a later time:
1 an idea or plan that was not originally intended:
In a collection of essays that is otherwise excellent in making links between theoretical and practical observations, this afterthought is a constant haunting presence.
The policy is neither an afterthought nor an expensive irrelevance, but the manifestation of the unique place of agriculture in the psyche of industrial societies.
Finally, one amino acid looks like an afterthought : the pathway to histidine is an extension of nucleotide synthesis and takes 26 steps in all.
The weakest section of the book is that addressing educational issues, which seems to have been included as an afterthought.
Often the appeal to national pride was too successful, with scientific objects obscured or reduced to an afterthought.
Now the pretentious sentences and the qualifying afterthoughts, all that hedging with provisos so typical of science talk - all that was now superfluous.
Materialisation is not an afterthought but part of the concept.
Political considerations and the availability of funds drive many newly commissioned services, and their evaluation is frequently an afterthought.
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事後想法, 事後添加的事物…
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idea de último momento, pensamiento posterior…
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reflexão posterior…
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sonradan akla gelen fikir düşünce…
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pensée après coup…
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dodatečná myšlenka…
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