Word familyadjectivehinderhindermosthindwardhindnounhinderlingshindbrainhindcasthindfoothindheadhindleghindquartershindsighthindwinghindberryadverbhindforemost
With hindsight, I should have seen the warning signs.
事后想来,我是应该看见那些警示牌的。
the benefit/wisdom of hindsight
With the benefit of hindsight, it’s easy to criticize.
事后指责自然容易。
Examples from the Corpus
hindsight• But, he says, the studies have the advantage of hindsight.• The historian with the gift of hindsight might wish to counter-assert the greater benefits brought by well-planned public infrastructural investment.• These are the judgements of hindsight, however.• With the luxury of hindsight and the safety of not having to go out and do it tomorrow.• These remarks were largely the product of hindsight and of their experiences in office from 1969.• We, with perfecthindsight, simply question some of its choices.• Moreover although, with hindsight, such a classification appears scientifically absurd it is zoologically perfectly sensible.
with/in hindsight• Most would agree, with hindsight, that everything seemed to happen in slowmotion, during and after the murder.• Yes, the work was important, but with hindsight I am not sure that I made the right move.• But in hindsight it maintains Carter's idiosyncratic position within currenttrends - fuelled by a mix of humanitarianism and hate.• Things can often become clear with hindsight.• The uniqueness of the arrangement that flies, or that opens the safe, is nothing to do with hindsight.• How different things look in hindsight, and how my own flaws stand out in relief.• The problem with people like Suzuki is that, with hindsight, their success can look too easy.• Thus in hindsight do we make granddestiny out of a simplequickening of the blood.
PREPOSITION | PHRASESPREPOSITION➤in hindsight以後見之明◇Their first idea was deemed, in hindsight, a mistake.事後,他們認為最初的想法是個錯誤。➤with hindsight事後看來◇This all seems obvious with hindsight.事後看來這一切都一目了然。PHRASES➤hindsight is a wonderful thing事後明白也不錯◇I should have guessed... but hindsight is a wonderful thing.我本應該早就猜到的⋯但事後認識到也很妙。➤(with) the advantage of hindsight, (with) the benefit of hindsight事後聰明◇It is easy to criticize others when you have the benefit of hindsight.事後再去批評別人當然容易。