hindsight

['haindsait]

n. 后见之明, 枪的照门

例句与用法：

I now know with hindsight that I made a mistake.

我事后才明白自己犯了一个错误。

I am able to attempt a judgment with the benefit of hindsight.

我借助事后的认识才得以做出判断。

n.

1. 事后的认识, 事后聪明, 后见之明[U]

I was able to attempt a judgment with the benefit of hindsight.

我借助事后的认识才得以作出判断。

2. (枪的)照门，标尺，后瞄准器

hindsight

同义词：

reflection | retrospection | perception | observation | remembrance | recall |

反义词：

foresight |

词义辨析：

反义:

n.事后聪明

foresight

hindsight['haindsait]n.1.■(枪的)表尺，后瞄准镜2.■事后的聪明，事后的认识kick(或knock) someone's hindsight off (或out)[美国口语] 把某人彻底打垮；把某人彻底干掉

1. [mass noun]understanding of a situation or event only after it has happened or developed
   后见之明，事后聪明，事后的认识
   with hindsight, I should never have gone.
   事后才知道，我根本不该去。
   

hindsight

名词 hindsight:

understanding the nature of an event after it has happened

hindsight

■"Robbie has played in the World Cup before. With hindsight, he would have provided experienced cover.

"福勒曾经参加过世界杯的比赛.这样,他可以为球队提供经验上的帮助.

■20/20 hindsight

n. 事后诸葛亮,事后聪明

■"Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? ...Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were happy! ...

“为什么曾经的美丽会突然因为知道了美丽背后的黑暗而如此彻底的碎裂？。。。难道因为那黑暗而使快乐不可能成为现实？可是现实里我们确实快乐过啊！”

■“In hindsight, it was a tactical mistake because it put us in the same category as Citigroup,” said Mr Lewis.

“事后来看，这是一个战术性失误，因为它让我们变成了花旗的同类，”刘易斯表示。

■"In hindsight, he should have just focused on the NBA, and not be forced to play for the Chinese national team.

“事后证实，他本应该集中精力打NBA比赛，不能被迫效力国家队。

■"I should have stayed longer at Liverpool and been patient but, when you are young sometimes you don't realise things," Vignal said in hindsight.

“我应该呆在利物浦久一点，需要一点耐心，但是年轻的时候，你没有认识到这种东西。”

■He told a Senate committee last month: "I just simply have not been able to come up with anything, even with the benefit of hindsight, that would have made a difference.

上个月，他告诉参议院的一个委员会：“即便站在今天回过头看，我也不认为当初我们能做什么事情可以给我们一个不同的结果。”

■Unfortunately, we do not know when this golden age will begin, because we will be able to identify a bottom to the housing market only with the benefit of hindsight.

不幸的是，我们不知道什么时候这个黄金时代开始，因为我们将能够确定了自下而上的房地产市场只有在事后。

■it would be all too easy for private parties to make a credible argument, especially with hindsight, that Congress should have spoken in more detail than it did.

个人当事人可以轻而易举地提出可信的理由，尤其是带有事后认识的理由，称国会本应当阐述得比其已讲过的更为详尽具体一些。

■In hindsight, it appears that her birth was an uneventful one.

之后的迹象表明，她的出生似乎平淡无奇。

■Maybe his hindsight is knowing that compared to his present girlfriend, Mary, he didn't have much in common with Samantha?

也许他的后知后觉就是明白了与玛丽相比，他和萨曼萨没有什么共同之处。

■That said, in any examination of Millman's interviews of established design figures such as Stefan Sagmeister and Michael Bierut, the reader would be remiss in forgetting the value of hindsight.

书中说，在米尔曼访谈的任一试验，欲建立诸如：斯捷潘.萨梅斯特和麦克.比鲁特的设计图像；读者会疏忽忘了事后才认识到的价值。

■With the wisdom of hindsight, it is easy to see patterns of behaviour that could have been spotted if staff had been asking the right questions.

事 后 来 看 ， 如 果 银 行 职 员 当 初 问 了 正 确 的 问 题 ， 有 些 行 为 模 式 是 很 容 易 发 现 的 。

■What looks obvious in hindsight was not at all obvious at the time.

事后一目了然的事在当时根本看不清。

■" On hindsight, being up there was probably a bad idea.

事后人们才发现，呆在那上头或许是个错误的想法。

■Hindsight is wonderful: from the walkway to my flat, I gaze out at the back end of a superstore atop the old waterway, and mourn for it.

事后回想是如此奇妙：从人行道到我的公寓，我向外注视矗立于旧河道之上的超级市场的后身，默默的追忆昔日运河。

■In hindsight I should have a simpler approach to the problem and not tried to make it so complex or all inclusive.

事后回想起来，我想我本该采取简单的方法解决问题，而不是把所有的东西都放在一起考虑，把问题复杂化。

■In hindsight,all agreed that this was the obvious reason for the hiccup.

事后想来，大家一致认为这显然是使劫机暂时中断的原因。

■in hindsight, this was a mistake

事后想来，这是个错误

■With hindsight, I think I could have offered that at the very least to a child I had wanted so much.

事后我思考，其实我是可以为他这麽做的，毕竟我花了好久的时间期待他的到来。

■realize with hindsight

事后才懂得...

■Only in hindsight is it clear what a crucial misjudgment that was.

事后才我们才明白这是一个多么关键的错误判断。

■With hindsight it is easy to say they should not have released him.

事后才说他们本不应该释放他，这倒容易。

■It's easy to criticise with the benefit of hindsight.

事后明白一切再来批评，这自然容易。

■In hindsight, I believe both the taxi cab driver and the man in the club acted typically Chinese.

事后来看,我认为那个出租车司机和夜总会里的那个人都是典型的中国人的作风。

■With the wisdom of hindsight, it is easy to see patterns of behaviour that could have been spotted if staff had been asking the right questions

事后来看，如果银行职员当初问了正确的问题，有些行为模式是很容易发现的。

■In hindsight, I would say that Ananda gave up a little to easily, but we can take the argument further and see that we cannot hold it.

事后来看，我会说阿难放弃得太容易了一点，但是我们可以继续推理下去，并发现论点确实不能成立。

■In hindsight, a "gradualist" approach means one step at a time, although the pace of change is anything but slow.

事后来看，所谓“渐进式”方式意味著一次只迈出一步，且步伐迈得很慢。

■With hindsight one can see on geometric grounds that the new "numbers" had to contain four components.

事后来认识，我们能看到在几何的基础上，新的“数”必须包含四个分量。

■Hindsight shows us the 1990 World Cup Semi-Final was a heroic defeat.

事后的所有迹象向我们表明，1990年的世界杯半决赛上演过一场壮烈的牺牲。

■Hindsight is 20/20.

事后的诸葛亮容易做。

■With hindsight, when the 2000 election became the closest ever, the Florida shenanigans seemed prefigured in that sniggering expression, which less became the 43rd president than Alfred E.

事后看来，在2000年这场有史以来最激烈的选举中，弗罗里达的那场闹剧早就在这副窃笑的表情中有了先兆。

■In hindsight, the epidemic did little to dent the trajectory of growth in the regions of East Asia that were most affected.

事后看来，在受影响最大的东亚地区，这一流行病并没有挫改该地区的经济增长轨迹。

■With the value of hindsight I don't know what I was thinking.

事后看来，我不知道我的想法的价值。

■With the benefit of hindsight, his quip marked the high point of fiscal fine-tuning.

事后看来，这番话堪称财政政策的绝唱。

■Using hindsight and evaluating the course of the Controversy, we realise how heroic Spurgeon was, how he was guided by wisdom from above rather than being dictated to by worldly philosophy.

事后看，衡量这场争议的发展，我们意识到司布真是何等如英雄般勇敢，他是何等接受从上头而来的智慧的引导，而不是被世界的哲学所左右。

■hindsight bias

事后聪明偏向

■The hindsight bias is the tendency for decision makers to falsely believe that they would have accurately predicted the outcome of an vent once that outcome is actually know.

事后诸葛亮，决策者的错误的信任，他们能精确的推出预言和事后的结果的。

■evaluate or criticize with hindsight.

事后进行评价或批评。

■I view those '03 Spurs, in hindsight, as a three-star outfit of Duncan-Parker-Ginobili, similar to the makeup of the current Celtics.

事后，我认为03年那届马刺的三驾马车（邓肯，吉诺比利，帕克）跟如今的凯尔特人三巨头很相似。

■Muchlater, from hindsight, Liang commented, “Neither knew the grammar of Chinese architecture; they wrote uncomprehending descriptions of Chinese buildings.

从枪的照尺，两批评,"皆不了中国建筑学的文法;他们写不了解华语建筑物的描述。

■In hindsight I am thankful for that lawyer, but for years after that, every time I found myself struggling, I worried that I did the wrong thing with the syndicate.

以后见之明来说，我还是要感谢那个律师，但是几年过去了，每次当我觉得我走投无路时，我总是怀疑当时自己做了一个错误的决定。

■But with the benefit of hindsight, he concludes, we see that proliferating government programs actually have been replacing families.

但他作出的结论是，根据后座的利益，我们看到滋长的政府计划已取代了家庭。

■In hindsight, when I have been engaged with one of my many mentors, I have had much greater progress.

但回过头来看，和其中一个千万富翁相处的时间进步相对更快。

■But like a doctor facing a patient with a new disease and strange symptoms, they often acted in ways that, with the benefit of hindsight, appeared counterproductive.

但就如医生面对一位有着奇怪症状的患有新疾病的病人一样，无法对症下药。他们通常的做法都是拿首个患者开刀，但根据其临床表现，研制出新的方法，惠及后人。

■But it is not hindsight alone that finds a natural, not solely a supernatural, sequentiality here.

但是在这里发现一种自然的（不单单是超自然的）顺序性，并非仅仅事后聪明。

■But, of course, hindsight is 20-20.

但是，当然啦，事后诸葛亮总是好当。

■In hindsight, however, the people who said these things may have had good reasons for thinking they were right.

但这些人在说话的时候会觉得他有足够的理由去证明他们的观点。

■By the middle of the first quarter, we established a sizable lead on the averages and a boldness that bespoke our performance. In hindsight, that was the first warning.

到第一季度中旬，我们已经获利颇丰，而且对前景信心十足。回过头来看，这其中已经埋藏了隐患。

■Foresight is better than hindsight.

前瞻比后顾好。