postscript

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post·script /ˈpəʊsˌskrɪpt $ ˈpoʊs-/ noun [countableC] (written abbreviation PS)

1. TCMa message written at the end of a letter after you have signed your name 〔信末署名后的〕附笔，附言，又及

2 ENDextra details or information that you add after a story or an account 〔加在故事、叙述等末尾的〕附言，补充说明

postscript to

There’s an interesting postscript to this tale.

这个故事后面有一段有趣的附记。

Examples from the Corpus

postscript• As a postscript to my days in Port Said, perhaps I can tell one brief, romantic story.• And where, Holtz wondered in a postscript, were the newspaper clippings from Melbourne?• A postscript must be added to this story.• This was more than just a belated postscript to one of the closest and most bizarre elections in history.• It was a fitting postscript to the year of victories and the real end of the invasion danger.• There's an interesting postscript to this tale.• The postscript, entitled A Princess Alone, covers the events of last summer.• There is an eerily Victorian postscript to this unhappy tale, almost too melodramatic to be true.• The hand-written postscript read, "Thank you Jim!"

From Longman Business Dictionary

postscriptpost·script /ˈpəʊsˌskrɪptˈpoʊs-/ noun [countableC]

something added to the end of a report, account etc

This information was given in a postscript to the letter.

→ see also PS