after/ˈɑ:ftə/ I. prep. 1.(表示时间)在…之后： the day after tomorrow 后天；after school 放学以后 2.(表示顺序)在…后面：After you!您先走!  3.(表示位置)在…后面：Shut the door after you. 随手关门。 4.用于习语 after all  1.毕竟，到底：［考句］ The bond of true affection had pulled us - six very different men very different countries - across Antarctica; we proved in the end that we weren’t very different after all .真正的关爱使我们六个来自不同国家的人一起穿越了南极。最后事实证明，我们并非完全不同。2.别忘了，要知道(用于提醒对方)： After all, Mike isn’t a boy any more. 要知道，麦克不再是个孩子了。be after 寻求，想得到：The police were after him. 警察正在追捕他。‖II. conj.在…之后(常与soon, shortly和long连用)：We found the letter long after he had gone away. 他出去很久以后我们才发现那封信。‖III. adv.后来，以后： He fell ill on Monday and died three days after. 他星期一病倒，三天后就死了。(three days after=three days later=after three days)