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. => mow
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"
雙語例句
1. A lot of rebuilding took place in the aftermath of the war.
戰(zhàn)后進行了大量的重建工作。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
2. In the aftermath of the hurricane, many people's homes were destroyed.
颶風(fēng)的后果是許多人的房屋被毀.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
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(xiàn)了期待未來與盼望和解的氣氛。
來自柯林斯例句
4. This old gentleman is to deal with the aftermath of the traffic accident.
這位老先生負責(zé)處理這次車禍的善后工作.
來自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
5. During the Soviet era and its immediate aftermath, the region was officially known as "Middle Asia and Kazakhstan".