after all
释义
afterall
adv. 毕竟;终究
after all的用法
1.after all 指期待某件事情发生,结果发生的却是相反的事情。意为尽管与我们所期待的不同,但还是(译为:终究,毕竟),一般放在句末,例如:
I'm so sorry ,i thought i could come and see you this evening,but I'm not free after all
我非常抱歉,原本今天晚上我能来看你的,但是终究没有空。
I expected to fail the exam,but i passed after all.
我原本以为考试不及格,但终究还是通过了。
2.after all也可指别忘记了,它常常表示为了说明某个好理由或者某个重要的辩论而提醒某人看起来忘记的事情,一般放在句首,例如:
It's not surprising you're hungry.After all,you didn't have breakfast.
你饿了我一点都不惊讶,别忘了,你没有吃早餐。
I think we should go and see Granny.After all,she only lives ten miles away,and we haven't seen her for ages.
我想我们应该去看外婆。别忘了,她离我们只有10英里,我们也已经好久没有去看她了。
例句
Afterall, only few of the theories exist now is wrong.
毕竟现存的理论只有极少数是有误的。
When I got to know this poor figure andheard her story I felt worse for her plight than for my own (I, afterall, I thought I had everything to in front of me).
但在我听到这个可怜的女人的故事的时候,我觉得她比我还惨(毕竟,我还有果酱和面包)。
Perhaps the old priest's claim was not so improbable afterall.
也许老牧师的说法根本就不是无稽之谈。