| 单词 |
after-world |
| 释义 |
ˈafter-world [after- 6.] 1. A future generation; posterity.
1596Harrington Ulysses upon Ajax, The *afterworld shal rather pittie your lost time. 1649Drummond of Hawthornden Cypress Grove Wks. 1711, 122 That to after-worlds thou might'st leave some monument that once thou wast. 1913G. Murray Euripides & his Age ii. 50 The judgement of the afterworld upon them will depend on the side we take in a never-ending battle. 2. A world after death.
1615Hoby Curry-combe iv. 181 He speaks of the state of th' elect in the after-world. 1887H. S. Holland Christ or Ecclesiastes 128 That great after-world for which..this age-long story of man is but a preparation. 1949D. L. Sayers Dante's Divine Comedy 17 The positions they occupy in the Three Kingdoms of the After-world. |

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