| 释义 |
‖ après coup, advb. phr.|aprɛ ku|
[Fr., lit. ‘after stroke’.]
As an afterthought; after the event.
1871Geo. Eliot Let. 27 Feb. (1955) V. 136 These letters, which must speak better for him than the finest eloquence après coup. 1887Athenæum 18 June 796/3 The name has probably been affixed to the book après coup, so to speak, and to allure the unwary reader. 1890W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xxviii. 630 Our abstract and general discoveries usually come to us as lucky fancies; and it is only après coup that we find that they correspond to some reality. |