► 副詞
後に [のちに] [liter] meaning: later rank: 3
☆ 彼は後に首相になった ⇨ He later became a prime minister (☛ A literary alternative of あとに)
More examples:
- 私は老後に家族のお荷物になりたくない ⇨ I don’t want to be a burden for my family when I get old
- 彼はその作品を最後に筆を折った ⇨ He broke his pen, stop writing, after finishing the novel
- 彼は彼女の背後にそっと忍び寄った ⇨ He snuck up behind her
- 彼は彼女の後に来た ⇨ He arrived after her
- 直後にいた車に追突された ⇨ We got rear-ended by a car that was right behind
- 試合の最後の最後に大波乱が起きた ⇨ There was a huge drama at the very end of the game
- 彼等は戦い続けたが、最後には力尽きた ⇨ They kept fighting, but got exhausted and succumbed in the end
- この薬は食後に内服する ⇨ You take, swallow, this medicine after meal
- この薬は毎食後に二錠ずつ服用する ⇨ You take this medicine 2 pills at a time after each meal
- 郵便は午後に集配する ⇨ The mailman comes to collect and deliver in the afternoon
- その事件の前後に怪しい男が目撃された ⇨ A suspicious man was seen around the time of the incident
- それは後にしよう ⇨ Let’s do that later
- 日本では第二次大戦直後に女性の参政権が確立された ⇨ The political participation rights for women were established right after WW2 in Japan
- これは後に回そう ⇨ Let’s take care of this later
- 彼は文の最後に句点を打った ⇨ He wrote a period at the end of the sentence